From: Christoph Hellwig <hch-wEGCiKHe2LqWVfeAwA7xHQ@public.gmane.org>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch-wEGCiKHe2LqWVfeAwA7xHQ@public.gmane.org>,
Stephan Mueller
<stephan.mueller-fwYZOkdEjagAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>,
Michael Kerrisk
<michael.kerrisk-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>,
linux-man-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: Handling of updates to kernel Documentation/ tree
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2015 07:11:04 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150310141104.GA17228@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150309174057.GC12857@vapier>
On Mon, Mar 09, 2015 at 01:40:57PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > Referencing a kernel Documentation file from a man page sounds like
> > a bad idea to me. Why can't we include a nroff-yfied version of the
> > content in the man-pages repository?
>
> isn't that way worse ? now we have to keep the man pages git repo in sync with
> the kernel Documentation/ subtree.
The content really should not change that much for public APIs.
> i think having the man pages refer to the public docbook kernel.org pages should
> be fine.
Pointing to kernel.org posted html renderings sounds perfectly fine to
me. The reference to files inside a kernel source tree is what I object
to.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-03-10 14:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-03-09 14:17 Handling of updates to kernel Documentation/ tree Stephan Mueller
2015-03-09 15:07 ` Christoph Hellwig
[not found] ` <20150309150739.GA6131-wEGCiKHe2LqWVfeAwA7xHQ@public.gmane.org>
2015-03-09 16:03 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
[not found] ` <54FDC468.40503-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2015-03-09 16:05 ` Christoph Hellwig
[not found] ` <20150309160520.GA28067-wEGCiKHe2LqWVfeAwA7xHQ@public.gmane.org>
2015-03-10 5:56 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2015-03-09 16:16 ` Stephan Mueller
2015-03-09 17:40 ` Mike Frysinger
2015-03-10 5:56 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2015-03-10 14:11 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
[not found] ` <20150310141104.GA17228-wEGCiKHe2LqWVfeAwA7xHQ@public.gmane.org>
2015-03-12 9:56 ` Stephan Mueller
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