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Date:	Wed, 25 Feb 2009 16:52:26 -0800
From:	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>
To:	Yang Hongyang <yanghy@...fujitsu.com>
CC:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>, Yang Hongyang <imhy.yang@...il.com>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, mtk.manpages@...il.com
Subject: Re: Documentation:Update the INDEX of the documents

Yang Hongyang wrote:
> Theodore Tso wrote:
>> On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 11:25:08PM +0800, Yang Hongyang wrote:
>>>> If folks do find the 00-INDEX files useful, my suggestion would be to
>>>> make a way of automatically extracting them from the individual files
>>>> and/or directories, and then making the 00-INDEX files to be
>>>> automatically generated.
>>> Sounds like a good idea but How to automatically generate
>>>  the summaries then?
>> Well, for text files (including subdirectory's 00-INDEX files) we
>> could have a convention which is the first line of the file should be
>> a (max 60 characters) one-line summary of the file.
>>
>> We would probably have to do something special with non-free-form-text
>> files, including structured text files like Docbook files.  So it's
>> not quite so straightforward, but it should be doable.
> 
> Yeah,if we do this one-line summary thing,we still have to go through
> all these documents.So why not just update the 00-INDEX and then tell
> the authors that will add docs to the kernel do the "00-INDEX work"
>  themselves?

I doubt that the 00-INDEX files are that useful...


-- 
~Randy
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