linux-kernel - Re: Documentation:Update the INDEX of the documents

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Message-ID: <49A5E97F.3070807@cn.fujitsu.com>
Date:	Thu, 26 Feb 2009 08:59:43 +0800
From:	Yang Hongyang <yanghy@...fujitsu.com>
To:	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.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

Randy Dunlap wrote:
> 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...
> 
> 

I think it depends on the individual^_^

-- 
Regards
Yang Hongyang
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