From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: [RFC] devpts man page update Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2008 15:19:16 -0800 Message-ID: <493470F4.3080602@zytor.com> References: <20081126181732.GA1509@us.ibm.com> <20081201181055.GA12493@us.ibm.com> <49343E32.50707@zytor.com> <20081201223913.GF2956@nb.net.home> <4934682F.7050305@zytor.com> <20081201230031.GA26838@nb.net.home> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20081201230031.GA26838-sHeGUpI7y9L/9pzu0YdTqQ@public.gmane.org> Sender: util-linux-ng-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Karel Zak Cc: mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org, List util-linux-ng , Sukadev Bhattiprolu , Alan Cox , linux-man-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, serue-r/Jw6+rmf7HQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org, sukadev-r/Jw6+rmf7HQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-man@vger.kernel.org Karel Zak wrote: > On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 02:41:51PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> Karel Zak wrote: >>>> 1. Agree that this is the way to do it. >>>> 2. Add the options to section 4. >>>> 3. Clean up mount(8). >>> 4. found a way how maintain and keep the man pages up to date. >>> >> As far as 4. is concerned -- I personally think that keeping man pages >> that directly describe kernel interfaces (e.g. section 2, and parts of >> 4, 5, and 7) in the kernel git tree is the most logical option. > > That's exactly my opinion ... somewhere in Documentation/ and > maintained *together* with fs-depend code. > By the way, lest someone gets the wrong idea... I think mtk has done a fantastic job with the man pages recently, and I certainly don't want to replace him. I think he should push into the kernel tree via git like all the other maintainers (for the relevant portions, obviously -- section 3, for example, doesn't make sense in the kernel tree.) -hpa -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux-ng" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html