Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261338AbUJWX5L (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Oct 2004 19:57:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261339AbUJWX5L (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Oct 2004 19:57:11 -0400 Received: from cantor.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:26856 "EHLO Cantor.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261338AbUJWX5G (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Oct 2004 19:57:06 -0400 To: Peter Williams Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Writing linux kernel specification References: <417AE4EA.6070107@bigpond.net.au.suse.lists.linux.kernel> From: Andi Kleen Date: 24 Oct 2004 01:56:11 +0200 In-Reply-To: <417AE4EA.6070107@bigpond.net.au.suse.lists.linux.kernel> Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 711 Lines: 12 Peter Williams writes: > Maybe that (the mostly bit) is what needs to be documented/specified > i.e. any differences between the Linux user space ABI and those two > standards. Surely that difference is reasonably stable and having it > documented in a single place would be useful. Andries Brouwer's linux manpages did exactly that for many years. Of course there are sometimes mistakes and bugs in them, but he accepts patches. -Andi - 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/