Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 30 Jan 2002 14:39:46 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 30 Jan 2002 14:39:37 -0500 Received: from femail35.sdc1.sfba.home.com ([24.254.60.25]:42204 "EHLO femail35.sdc1.sfba.home.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 30 Jan 2002 14:39:21 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Rob Landley To: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: A modest proposal -- We need a patch penguin Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 14:40:25 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.1] Cc: Denis Vlasenko , Dave Jones , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <200201290446.g0T4kZU31923@snark.thyrsus.com> <20020130093741.JKWP18592.femail36.sdc1.sfba.home.com@there> <20020130044305.B11267@havoc.gtf.org> In-Reply-To: <20020130044305.B11267@havoc.gtf.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Message-Id: <20020130193920.XLYO7009.femail35.sdc1.sfba.home.com@there> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wednesday 30 January 2002 04:43 am, Jeff Garzik wrote: > On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 04:38:51AM -0500, Rob Landley wrote: > > Considering how much he's been warned so far about the need for CML2 to > > maintain as much compatability as possible with CML1, > > Pardon me while I laugh my ass off. [waits...] > > behavior as possible in its first version, and not to make intrustive > > changes into the rest of the codebase... I think he expected to be > > flamed alive if he broke up the help file before CML2 went in. > > > > I.E. There was a miscommunication. (The drop from Linus was an actual > > reject, but without an explanation of why it was rejected the reject > > didn't get resolved. For 33 consecutive versions...) > > Getting told something point blank, multiple times, is definitely > -something-. I suppose you could call that miscommunication. I'm under the impression CML2 already supports the split-up per-directory help files, and did long before Linus actually split it up. Therefore, Eric hasn't entirely been ignoring the issue, has he? Yes, I would call it a miscommunication. (By the way, if you really want to fix the current cml1 stuff in the cheesiest manner possible, what would be wrong with some variant of "find . -name "*.hlp" | xargs cat > oldhelpfile.hlp"? Then the old help file becomes a generated file of the new help files. Why mess with tcl/tk? Put it in the make file as a dependency. Pardon me if somebody fixed it last night, I seem have 91 emails to wade through since then on the patch penguin fallout alone...) > Jeff Rob - 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/