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SubjectRe: Updated sysctl documentation take #2
On Wed, 7 Jun 2006 20:53:16 +0200 Diego Calleja wrote:

> Since people didn't like the "many small files" approach, I've moved
> it to directories containing index.txt files:
>
> Documentation/sysctl/vm/index.txt
> Documentation/sysctl/net/core/index.txt
> Documentation/sysctl/net/unix/index.txt
> Documentation/sysctl/net/ipv4/index.txt
> Documentation/sysctl/net/ipv4/conf/index.txt
> Documentation/sysctl/net/ipv4/route/index.txt
> Documentation/sysctl/net/ipv4/neigh/index.txt
>
> and so on.
>
> As previously, this moves all sysctl documentation (including
> XFS and network) to Documentation/sysctl/*. The patch is
> against linus tree and weights more than 200K in size
> and is place at: http://www.terra.es/personal/diegocg/sysctl-docs

~> diffstat -p1 -w 70 sysctl-docs
Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | 1210 ----------------
Documentation/filesystems/xfs.txt | 84 -
Documentation/networking/00-INDEX | 2
Documentation/networking/Configurable | 2
Documentation/networking/decnet.txt | 4
Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt | 899 -----------
Documentation/networking/xfrm_sync.txt | 11
Documentation/sysctl/README | 121 -
Documentation/sysctl/abi.txt | 54
Documentation/sysctl/abi/index.txt | 49
Documentation/sysctl/dev/README | 2
Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt | 150 -
Documentation/sysctl/fs/index.txt | 240 +++
Documentation/sysctl/fs/xfs/index.txt | 170 ++
Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt | 344 ----
Documentation/sysctl/kernel/index.txt | 628 ++++++++
Documentation/sysctl/net/README | 8
Documentation/sysctl/net/appletalk/index.txt | 38
Documentation/sysctl/net/bridge/index.txt | 44
Documentation/sysctl/net/core/index.txt | 115 +
Documentation/sysctl/net/ipv4/conf/index.txt | 270 +++
Documentation/sysctl/net/ipv4/index.txt | 739 +++++++++
Documentation/sysctl/net/ipv4/neigh/index.txt | 138 +
Documentation/sysctl/net/ipv4/route/index.txt | 143 +
Documentation/sysctl/net/ipv6/conf/index.txt | 256 +++
Documentation/sysctl/net/ipv6/icmp/index.txt | 15
Documentation/sysctl/net/ipv6/index.txt | 65
Documentation/sysctl/net/ipv6/neigh/index.txt | 134 +
Documentation/sysctl/net/ipv6/route/index.txt | 78 +
Documentation/sysctl/net/unix/index.txt | 15
Documentation/sysctl/sunrpc.txt | 20
Documentation/sysctl/sunrpc/index.txt | 64
Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt | 180 --
Documentation/sysctl/vm/index.txt | 334 ++++
Documentation/sysrq.txt | 20
35 files changed, 3611 insertions(+), 3035 deletions(-)
I don't know how long it takes to review such a large patch, but
I'll continue to do so. For now:

README:

1. +Documentation for /proc/sys/, aka. sysctl

a.k.a. or just "aka". Not "aka.". or spell it out, or omit it,
maybe like:

Documentation for /proc/sys/ (sysctl)

2. Limit lines to max. of 80 characters, but around 70-72 is better
IMO. That allows someone to make minor corrections without having
to fudge the lines around.

3. +This means there're several parameters
use "there are"

4. +are: enabling or disabling forwading in a certain network interface
forwarding

5. +is also used to export some stadistic information, ej: some
statistic or statistics or statistical
ej: ?? use e.g.: (preferred) or eg:

6. +can be read but can _not_ be written.
_cannot_

7. +own program to read them aswell)
as well)

8. +to change '/' by '.' and ignore the '/proc/sys' part of the path, ie
s/by/to/
s/ie/i.e./

9. +means that any tweak that you do will be lost the next time you restart your
* collapse 2 spaces to 1

10. +_VERY_ DANGEROUS and can ruin the performance performance,
drop one "performance"

11. +As a quick 'ls /proc/sys' will show, the directory consists of several subdirs.
+Each subdir is mainly about one part of the kernel, so you can do configuration

Spell out "subdirectories" and "subdirectory".

12. +fs/ specific filesystems filehandle, inode, dentry and quota tuning

insert ":" after "filesystems"


OK, that's all for the README file. I'll look at the rest of it
sometime this week. I don't think that it's quite ready to be merged.

---
~Randy
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