Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934088AbXHFPgc (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Aug 2007 11:36:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S934018AbXHFPgN (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Aug 2007 11:36:13 -0400 Received: from static-71-162-243-5.phlapa.fios.verizon.net ([71.162.243.5]:48227 "EHLO grelber.thyrsus.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933431AbXHFPgK (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Aug 2007 11:36:10 -0400 From: Rob Landley Organization: Boundaries Unlimited To: Stefan Richter Subject: Re: Documentation of kernel messages (Summary) Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 11:50:51 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 Cc: Greg KH , 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 References: <200708041354.17653.rob@landley.net> <46B4DBD1.9050206@s5r6.in-berlin.de> In-Reply-To: <46B4DBD1.9050206@s5r6.in-berlin.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200708061050.53263.rob@landley.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1108 Lines: 29 On Saturday 04 August 2007 3:04:33 pm Stefan Richter wrote: > Rob Landley wrote: > > Documentation is merely one resource among many, and > > to link _out_ you need HTML. > > Do you suggest HTML files in linux/Documentation? I've thought about it, but right now Documentation is text. Converting all the existing text files to html is a fairly intrusive change, and having multiple file formats in there seems even more untidy. (What next, pdf?). I'm aware there are some docbook files in there, plus an ancient graphic file, plus the bloody stains of various chicken sacrificies, but the point would be how best to clean it up... > I think we can follow > URIs and other references in plaintext files just fine. Go for it. Have fun. I'll be over here. Rob -- "One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code." - Ken Thompson. - 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/