Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932329AbWBPQvf (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Feb 2006 11:51:35 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932486AbWBPQvf (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Feb 2006 11:51:35 -0500 Received: from xenotime.net ([66.160.160.81]:30128 "HELO xenotime.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S932329AbWBPQvf (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Feb 2006 11:51:35 -0500 Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 08:51:33 -0800 (PST) From: "Randy.Dunlap" X-X-Sender: rddunlap@shark.he.net To: Matthias Andree cc: Greg KH , Linux-Kernel mailing list Subject: Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest) In-Reply-To: <20060216120129.GA8878@merlin.emma.line.org> Message-ID: References: <43D7C1DF.1070606@gmx.de> <878xt3rfjc.fsf@amaterasu.srvr.nix> <43ED005F.5060804@tmr.com> <20060210235654.GA22512@kroah.com> <43F0891E.nailKUSCGC52G@burner> <871wy6sy7y.fsf@hades.wkstn.nix> <43F1BE96.nailMY212M61V@burner> <20060214223001.GB357@kroah.com> <20060215004320.GB21742@merlin.emma.line.org> <20060215052051.GA22240@kroah.com> <20060216120129.GA8878@merlin.emma.line.org> 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: 1211 Lines: 30 On Thu, 16 Feb 2006, Matthias Andree wrote: > On Tue, 14 Feb 2006, Greg KH wrote: > > > > And that is the key problem. magazine here, conference there, talk > > > (perhaps only slides available) somewhere else -- a manual that was in > > > /usr/src/linux/Documentation might make a real difference. Even a > > > commented link list in Documentation/* might be a good starting point. > > > > > > Patrick Mochel added some bits three years ago, but they were internals > > > and thus a bit less interesting. > > > > What would be "interesting"? The sysfs and driver model chapter of the > > Linux Device Driver book from Oreilly, third edition? Or something > > oriented toward users of sysfs, not developers using it? > > Integrating documentation with the kernel. Documentation/* is constantly > out of date and incomplete, and sometimes has non-intuitive names. I mostly agree and I'm trying to update it -- in my spare time. Help is accepted. 8:) -- ~Randy - 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/