Re: Linux wireless GSoC 2010 project ideas

[Pat Erley <pat-lkml@erley.org>]

On 02/04/10 03:32, Kalle Valo wrote:
> <pat-lkml@erley.org> writes:
> 
>>> Would you document this on the wireless WIKI at 
>>> wireless.kernel.org ?
>>>
>>> Maybe as different articles, so that this can be a basis of 
>>> several "HOWTO" articles.
>>
>> Yeah, I will try to find the time soon.  Any hints as to what needs to be 
>> documented?  It is, at least in my opinion, pretty trivial to pull off, so
>> I'm not certain that anything more than an entry explaining how to create
>> additional interfaces is necessary.  Feel free to throw some ideas as to
>> what all you'd like to see in the documentation, and I'll write it (them?)
> 
> Based on my experiences helping not-so-skilled people:
> 
> o even trivial issues need to be documented, assume that the reader
>   knows nothing
> 
> o examples are best, also try explain in detail what the example
>   actually does
> 
> o make sure examples really work and are correct :)
> 
> o pointers for more information (if there are any)
> 
> Just my 0.02 EUR.
> 
ok, I'll see what I can come up with.  It's all pretty simple, but you're 
right, there's not a lot of documentation about it out there.

Pat