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

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Date:	Tue, 24 Jul 2007 17:00:28 +0100
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	corbet@....net (Jonathan Corbet)
Cc:	lkml - Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@...otime.net>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] lguest: documentation pt I: Preparation

> P.S. I am currently considering a no-limericks policy for the LWN quote
> of the week.

The LWN quote of the week
Is I think rather weak
No poems allowed
To rise from the crowd
Its future looks terribly bleak

More seriously the documentation looks good, and it definitely wants a
date/release clearly mentioning so people know when it is obsolete

> Advantage:  it does keep the source code + doc text together.
> Martin (former kernel-doc maintainer) was going to come up with
> some way to do this, but he abandoned it. 

It's not clear to me how you then format the extracted material. It
doesn't really fit the kernel-doc idea of formats. It would probably be
far easier to teach a seperate tool to rip clearly marked blocks into
ASCII documentation files for that purpose

Alan
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