Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 13:54:22 +0000
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Coywolf Qi Hunt <coywolf@gmail.com>, Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] HOWTO do Linux kernel development
Message-ID: <20051117135421.GJ2193@spitz.ucw.cz>
References: <20051114220709.GA5234@kroah.com> <2cd57c900511141708y5d11fd34n@mail.gmail.com> <20051115043846.GA28005@kroah.com> <2cd57c900511142151h7d8f97b3p@mail.gmail.com> <20051115055229.GA6163@kroah.com>
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Hi!

> > Those who don't notice Documentation, don't deserve it, and are not
> > likely/willingly to be the audience,
> 
> Actually this is exactly the audience this is for, people who do not
> know where to look for the stuff they are trying to find.
> 
> Now getting people to realize that this is the file they really want to
> look at is a different task, but not impossible.
> 
> > > Now if those same people would notice anything in the root directory
> > > either, is another story...
> > 
> > That is rather like top-posting or CAPITALIZATION, or spamming.
> 
> Cool, I'm a top-poster, SPAMMER for creating a HOWTO file in the root
> directory of the kernel tree.  And here I thought I had been called
> every bad name in the book before :)

HOWTO is really wrong name for it. I'd expect "how to compile kernel" there.
Plus, some people actually needing advice will miss it because they'll only
search Doc*/

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