Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758712AbXEJNjp (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 May 2007 09:39:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1760200AbXEJNjU (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 May 2007 09:39:20 -0400 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:50506 "EHLO the-village.bc.nu" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759586AbXEJNjS (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 May 2007 09:39:18 -0400 Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 14:43:02 +0100 From: Alan Cox To: Pekka J Enberg Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Mathieu Desnoyers , akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [patch 07/10] Linux Kernel Markers - Documentation Message-ID: <20070510144302.6a7826d6@the-village.bc.nu> In-Reply-To: References: <20070510015555.973107048@polymtl.ca> <20070510020917.172554217@polymtl.ca> <20070510065847.GE8019@infradead.org> <20070510124120.6e8ac5aa@the-village.bc.nu> <20070510114158.GA16741@infradead.org> <20070510134816.5e57e3cb@the-village.bc.nu> <84144f020705100552u3f988e80u29fc412737522259@mail.gmail.com> <20070510140452.25ae6765@the-village.bc.nu> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.1 (GTK+ 2.10.8; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1212 Lines: 29 O> Oh, I am not advocating censorship. I was merely pointing out that it > seems silly to mention out-of-tree users because they come and go. Who > knows whether LTTng or SystemTAP will be relevant five years from now? And in the intervening five years (or more likely 7 or more for systemtap) the documentation will be very useful. > Besides, are we sure the document includes all potential users now? We > wouldn't want to show favorism to any particular projects, now would we? Absolutely not - and isn't it more useful to let users know about all of the tools that this enables ? > > On Thu, 10 May 2007, Alan Cox wrote: > > And as I keep saying the tree is full of references to out of tree stuff. > > The documentation directory alone currently contains over a thousand http > > URLS as of 2.6.21-rc6-mm1. > > Many of the already out of date or expiring in the near future... Have you done a statistically valid sampling or is this guessing ? Alan - 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/