Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261455AbVEBQpy (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 May 2005 12:45:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261440AbVEBQnv (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 May 2005 12:43:51 -0400 Received: from prgy-npn1.prodigy.com ([207.115.54.37]:22154 "EHLO oddball.prodigy.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261455AbVEBQ3s (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 May 2005 12:29:48 -0400 Message-ID: <42765546.5020600@tmr.com> Date: Mon, 02 May 2005 12:28:54 -0400 From: Bill Davidsen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050319 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeff Garzik CC: Adrian Bunk , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] remove BK documentation References: <20050501233441.GC3592@stusta.de><20050501233441.GC3592@stusta.de> <20050501234331.GA9244@havoc.gtf.org> In-Reply-To: <20050501234331.GA9244@havoc.gtf.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1200 Lines: 33 Jeff Garzik wrote: > On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 01:34:41AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > >>There's no longer a reason to document the obsolete BK usage. >> >>Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk > > > If you are going to remove some documents, please at least have the > common courtesy of CC'ing the author of the documents. > > Speaking as the author of 90% of Documentation/BK-usage directory, > I ACK this patch. > > Jeff This seems like a good place to thank Adrian for his cleaning fetish, which makes the kernel code and docs far less confusing, and Jeff, who put in most of the effort in documenting bk. Documentation authors really should mention themselves in the introduction, docs aren't sexy and don't get your name in the news, but they are a vital part of making Linux usable. -- -bill davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com) "The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer" -me - 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/