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Message-ID: <20140124032324.GO7269@order.stressinduktion.org> Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 04:23:24 +0100 From: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org> To: netdev@...r.kernel.org Subject: critic on documentation of the network stack Hello! After net-next is closed I wanted to put the following link here: <http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=4356053&cid=45184693> I don't want to start a flamefest or come too close to someone but I fear some of the critic is reasonable. Maybe we can do better (I have to admit, I also hate writing documentation, e.g. have not yet send the IP_PMTUDISC_INTERFACE man-page patches). I try to start with some constructive discussion: There are some great features in the network stack that some people miss because of lack documentation. One possible solution is documentation directly in the kernel, but mostly this is just written as a reference and the real wonderful stuff is only achieved by putting lots of those features correclty together. Maybe this is the second or third time this was proposed but I'll try again: Would it make sense to just start slow and setup a wiki where we just throw in the various snippets we use for testing while developing patches, maybe with a bit of background information? This may well attract interested people outside of netdev@ which could start helping cleaning up the wiki or add more useful documentation on their own. We could check from time to time what could be fed back into Documentation/? The reason why I would definitely help to improve the wiki is because I am sure I can learn from other setups and testing methodologies, too, and definitely still have not yet seen everything what is possible with the linux network stack. Thanks && Hopes for a constructive dicussion, Hannes -- 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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