linux-kernel - Re: Documentation of kernel messages (Summary)

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Message-Id: <20070803111155.fe9281f6.rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Date:	Fri, 3 Aug 2007 11:11:55 -0700
From:	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>
To:	Rob Landley <rob@...dley.net>
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Subject: Re: Documentation of kernel messages (Summary)

On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 15:53:06 -0400 Rob Landley wrote:

> On Sunday 15 July 2007 12:28:06 pm Randy Dunlap wrote:
> > On Sat, 14 Jul 2007 21:56:15 -0400 Rob Landley wrote:
> > > On Friday 13 July 2007 11:54:41 pm Randy Dunlap wrote:
> > > > > If there's interest, I can push some patches to clean up
> > > > > Documentation by moving files into subdirectories, but
> > > > > Documentation's not well-suited to link out to the web.  (You need
> > > > > html for that, and it's text.)
> > > >
> > > > I think that you should start moving Documentation/ files around
> > > > and adding subdirectories -- if you are pretty sure of where they
> > > > should go (i.e., they won't likely be moved again later on).
> > >
> > > You mean like these?
> > > http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0705.3/2925.html
> > > http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0705.3/2924.html
> >
> > Yes.  Have any of these been merged?
> 
> Not that I know of.  They seemed to meet with resounding indifference, so I 
> went on to other things...

You need to be persistent.  Please re-submit this.

and since it's just file & dir moves and done via git, it should go to
Linus.  However, he may not want it right now since the primary
merge window for 2.6.23 has closed (although he has been merging
some other doc updates recently).

---
~Randy
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