Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760087AbXFMSbh (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Jun 2007 14:31:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759332AbXFMSb3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Jun 2007 14:31:29 -0400 Received: from mtagate1.uk.ibm.com ([195.212.29.134]:19954 "EHLO mtagate1.uk.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759291AbXFMSb1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Jun 2007 14:31:27 -0400 Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] Documentation of kernel messages From: holzheu Reply-To: holzheu@linux.vnet.ibm.com To: David Miller Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, randy.dunlap@oracle.com, akpm@osdl.org, gregkh@suse.de, mtk-manpages@gmx.net, schwidefsky@de.ibm.com, heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com In-Reply-To: <20070613.112319.78711331.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1181747217.29512.9.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20070613.112319.78711331.davem@davemloft.net> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: IBM Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 20:27:51 +0200 Message-Id: <1181759271.26375.30.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.2 (2.0.2-27.rhel4.6) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 667 Lines: 16 On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 11:23 -0700, David Miller wrote: > I think my general response to something like this, if it goes > in, would be to stop emitting useful kernel log messages > in the code I write because having to document it too on top > of that is just too much extra work to be worthwhile. Nobody will force you to document your messages. As I said, there is no need to document self-explaining printks. Michael - 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/