Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1763984AbXHDDtz (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Aug 2007 23:49:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1761555AbXHDDtq (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Aug 2007 23:49:46 -0400 Received: from mx1.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:43491 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759536AbXHDDto (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Aug 2007 23:49:44 -0400 Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2007 20:50:38 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Rob Landley Cc: Randy Dunlap , Alan Cox , Theodore Tso , leoli@freescale.com, Gerrit Huizenga , "H. Peter Anvin" , "Kunai, Takashi" , holzheu@linux.vnet.ibm.com, Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, lf_kernel_messages@linux-foundation.org, mtk-manpages@gmx.net, jack@suse.cz, pavel@ucw.cz, tim.bird@am.sony.com, arjan@infradead.org, sam@ravnborg.org, jengelh@computergmbh.de, joe@perches.com, auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com, hansendc@us.ibm.com, davem@davemloft.net, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, kenistoj@us.ibm.com, schwidefsky@de.ibm.com, heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Documentation of kernel messages (Summary) Message-ID: <20070804035038.GA23330@suse.de> References: <200707161553.07813.rob@landley.net> <20070803111155.fe9281f6.rdunlap@xenotime.net> <200708031432.05714.rob@landley.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200708031432.05714.rob@landley.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15 (2007-04-06) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2234 Lines: 48 On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 03:32:04PM -0400, Rob Landley wrote: > On Friday 03 August 2007 1:11:55 pm Randy Dunlap wrote: > > On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 15:53:06 -0400 Rob Landley wrote: > > > On Sunday 15 July 2007 12:28:06 pm Randy Dunlap wrote: > > > > On Sat, 14 Jul 2007 21:56:15 -0400 Rob Landley wrote: > > > > > On Friday 13 July 2007 11:54:41 pm Randy Dunlap wrote: > > > > > > > If there's interest, I can push some patches to clean up > > > > > > > Documentation by moving files into subdirectories, but > > > > > > > Documentation's not well-suited to link out to the web. (You > > > > > > > need html for that, and it's text.) > > > > > > > > > > > > I think that you should start moving Documentation/ files around > > > > > > and adding subdirectories -- if you are pretty sure of where they > > > > > > should go (i.e., they won't likely be moved again later on). > > > > > > > > > > You mean like these? > > > > > http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0705.3/2925.html > > > > > http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0705.3/2924.html > > > > > > > > Yes. Have any of these been merged? > > > > > > Not that I know of. They seemed to meet with resounding indifference, so > > > I went on to other things... > > > > You need to be persistent. Please re-submit this. > > Greg KH thinks it's a good idea to add language directories to the top level > of Documentation, and there are slightly more than two of those: > http://www.translatorscafe.com/cafe/Help.asp?HelpID=59 > > Since you think it's worth doing, I'll resubmit the work I've already done > here, but I no longer think trying to shovel Documentation into some > semblance of order against the will of people like Greg is a good use of > time. My "will" is only that some of these documents be translated _and_ put in the main kernel source tree. I really have no opinion on where they need to go within that directory. If you have a better place for them, please let me know. thanks, greg k-h - 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/