Messages in this thread | | | From | Rob Landley <> | Subject | Re: Documentation of kernel messages (Summary) | Date | Sat, 4 Aug 2007 15:02:16 -0400 |
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On Friday 03 August 2007 10:50:38 pm Greg KH wrote: > On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 03:32:04PM -0400, Rob Landley wrote: > > On Friday 03 August 2007 1:11:55 pm Randy Dunlap wrote: > > > On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 15:53:06 -0400 Rob Landley wrote: > > > > On Sunday 15 July 2007 12:28:06 pm Randy Dunlap wrote: > > > > > On Sat, 14 Jul 2007 21:56:15 -0400 Rob Landley wrote: > > > > > > On Friday 13 July 2007 11:54:41 pm Randy Dunlap wrote: > > > > > > > > If there's interest, I can push some patches to clean up > > > > > > > > Documentation by moving files into subdirectories, but > > > > > > > > Documentation's not well-suited to link out to the web. (You > > > > > > > > need html for that, and it's text.) > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I think that you should start moving Documentation/ files > > > > > > > around and adding subdirectories -- if you are pretty sure of > > > > > > > where they should go (i.e., they won't likely be moved again > > > > > > > later on). > > > > > > > > > > > > You mean like these? > > > > > > http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0705.3/2925.html > > > > > > http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0705.3/2924.html > > > > > > > > > > Yes. Have any of these been merged? > > > > > > > > Not that I know of. They seemed to meet with resounding > > > > indifference, so I went on to other things... > > > > > > You need to be persistent. Please re-submit this. > > > > Greg KH thinks it's a good idea to add language directories to the top > > level of Documentation, and there are slightly more than two of those: > > http://www.translatorscafe.com/cafe/Help.asp?HelpID=59 > > > > Since you think it's worth doing, I'll resubmit the work I've already > > done here, but I no longer think trying to shovel Documentation into some > > semblance of order against the will of people like Greg is a good use of > > time. > > My "will" is only that some of these documents be translated _and_ put > in the main kernel source tree. I really have no opinion on where they > need to go within that directory. If you have a better place for them, > please let me know.
A common subdirectory. I'd probably put it in "Documentation/translated" with a README at the top level of that explaining what it's for.
I can push a patch to move them, but reorganizing Documentation doesn't turn it into an index that can link out resources outside itself. If reorganizing it to be less of a compost heap is a separate goal in and of itself, I can do that...
Rob -- "One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code." - Ken Thompson. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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