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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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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