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Message-ID: <20080213073159.GA13414@kroah.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 23:31:59 -0800
From: Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To: Scott Lovenberg <scott.lovenberg@...il.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>,
Mulyadi Santosa <mulyadi.santosa@...il.com>,
Peter Teoh <htmldeveloper@...il.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
kernelnewbies <kernelnewbies@...linux.org>,
Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: Documentation about sysfs/procfs entries
On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 12:59:43AM -0500, Scott Lovenberg wrote:
> Randy Dunlap wrote:
>> On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 09:08:12 +0700 Mulyadi Santosa wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Hi all...
>>>
>>> Here's my idea: what if we collaborate to extend and make the kernel
>>> documentation better? I have done (slow) start by editing profile=
>>> kernel param. It's not accepted by Adrian Bunk, but at least I did it.
>>> Feedback?
>>>
>>
>> Adrian is no longer the trivial patch maintainer.
>> Did you send the patch to trivial@...nel.org ?
>>
>> Any doc additions or improvements would be appreciated.
>> I'll be glad to help get them merged...
>>
>> ---
>> ~Randy
>>
>>
> I'd love to help, but I'm a bit of a newbie; what's protocol for
> documentation updates, standard diffs?
Yes.
> How are we going to attack this thing, cleaning up and updating existing
> documentation first and then adding undocumented items, or file by file
> updating and adding in one fell swoop?
File by file.
And please place the new documentation of sysfs and procfs entries into
the framework in the Documentation/ABI/ directory tree, which is where
it belongs.
thanks,
greg k-h
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