Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 30 Jan 2002 14:42:36 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 30 Jan 2002 14:42:27 -0500 Received: from panic.ohr.gatech.edu ([130.207.47.194]:60888 "HELO gtf.org") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Wed, 30 Jan 2002 14:42:12 -0500 Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 14:42:10 -0500 From: Jeff Garzik To: Rob Landley Cc: Denis Vlasenko , Dave Jones , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: A modest proposal -- We need a patch penguin Message-ID: <20020130144210.B1391@havoc.gtf.org> In-Reply-To: <200201290446.g0T4kZU31923@snark.thyrsus.com> <20020130093741.JKWP18592.femail36.sdc1.sfba.home.com@there> <20020130044305.B11267@havoc.gtf.org> <20020130193920.XLYO7009.femail35.sdc1.sfba.home.com@there> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020130193920.XLYO7009.femail35.sdc1.sfba.home.com@there>; from landley@trommello.org on Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 02:40:25PM -0500 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 02:40:25PM -0500, Rob Landley wrote: > 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...] Keep waiting, I'm still laughing. > 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? >From the kernel's point of view, yes, he has. > (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...) That's a hack. Fix it the right way. this is a devel series, we can afford to wait for the better fix Jeff - 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/