linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/7] lguest: documentation pt I: Preparation

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Date:	Thu, 26 Jul 2007 13:35:22 +1000
From:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
To:	Rob Landley <rob@...dley.net>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	lkml - Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	virtualization <virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
	"Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@...otime.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] lguest: documentation pt I: Preparation

On Wed, 2007-07-25 at 18:22 -0400, Rob Landley wrote:
> On Monday 23 July 2007 9:01:48 pm Rusty Russell wrote:
> > > IOW, I'd be interested in hearing Rob and Randy's opinions on it all,
> > > please.
> >
> > So they can see what we're talking about, here's an example of the
> > output:
> >
> > 	http://lguest.ozlabs.org/lguest-journey.c.bz2
> 
> Er, so you read the readme, and then you type "make Preparation!" (which I 
> wouldn't have guessed from the comment at the end of the readme), and it 
> spits this to stdout.

Hi Rob!

	I'm going to ask an odd thing.  I *don't* think this should be part of
the generally-available kernel documentation.  I'm sure you can see
several reasons for this, but I'll spell them out for posterity.

	People reading the lguest *code* documentation should feel a sense of
achievement.  It starts with a slight puzzle, works its way through deep
details of code, and emerges with the reader feeling confident enough to
start hacking on it.

Thanks for your understanding!
Rusty.


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