Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758243AbYBMH15 (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Feb 2008 02:27:57 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1765973AbYBMH1b (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Feb 2008 02:27:31 -0500 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:57618 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1765915AbYBMH1a (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Feb 2008 02:27:30 -0500 Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 23:31:59 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Scott Lovenberg Cc: Randy Dunlap , Mulyadi Santosa , Peter Teoh , LKML , kernelnewbies , Rik van Riel Subject: Re: Documentation about sysfs/procfs entries Message-ID: <20080213073159.GA13414@kroah.com> References: <804dabb00802112123t774623b2n3e1e0a4addde1512@mail.gmail.com> <804dabb00802112346q240745abm93b6257f2cd64e60@mail.gmail.com> <47B15DD2.3090706@gmail.com> <20080212204348.4a858650.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> <47B2874F.5000805@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <47B2874F.5000805@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1400 Lines: 46 On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 12:59:43AM -0500, Scott Lovenberg wrote: > Randy Dunlap wrote: >> On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 09:08:12 +0700 Mulyadi Santosa wrote: >> >> >>> Hi all... >>> >>> Here's my idea: what if we collaborate to extend and make the kernel >>> documentation better? I have done (slow) start by editing profile= >>> kernel param. It's not accepted by Adrian Bunk, but at least I did it. >>> Feedback? >>> >> >> Adrian is no longer the trivial patch maintainer. >> Did you send the patch to trivial@kernel.org ? >> >> Any doc additions or improvements would be appreciated. >> I'll be glad to help get them merged... >> >> --- >> ~Randy >> >> > I'd love to help, but I'm a bit of a newbie; what's protocol for > documentation updates, standard diffs? Yes. > How are we going to attack this thing, cleaning up and updating existing > documentation first and then adding undocumented items, or file by file > updating and adding in one fell swoop? File by file. And please place the new documentation of sysfs and procfs entries into the framework in the Documentation/ABI/ directory tree, which is where it belongs. 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/