From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Nomenclature of udev documentation
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 00:52:11 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050211005211.GA26890@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050210.173601.29803807.christopher_culver@yahoo.com>
On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 05:36:01PM -0600, Christopher Culver wrote:
> Udev comes with a "ChangeLog" file. However, the contents of this file
> are a friendly summary of changes instead of the very specific and
> technical remarks usually contained in file of that name. According to
> the GNU tradition of documentation, now upheld by most Free Software
> project, this file would more appropriately be called NEWS. I request
> that the maintainers change the name of this file, since consistency
> is good.
udev has _nothing_ to do with GNU traditions, nor the Free Software
project, with the exception being that it uses the GPL v2 for its
license.
The file, ChangeLog, is automatically generated by the same script that
generates the Linux Kernel ChangeLog comments that get posted to the
linux-kernel mailing list with each kernel release. That is why I
chose that format.
Also, the format you are specifying, lends itself to being created by
cvs. udev uses BitKeeper for its version control system, which is
vastly different.
I, however, am very happy that you enjoy the udev program so much that
the only thing wrong you can find with it is the format that the
ChangeLog file is in :)
thanks,
greg k-h
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-02-10 23:36 Nomenclature of udev documentation Christopher Culver
2005-02-11 0:52 ` Greg KH [this message]
2005-02-11 0:58 ` Christopher Culver
2005-02-11 1:11 ` Greg KH
2005-02-11 1:56 ` Ken Brush
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