From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 23 Jun 2001 19:33:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 23 Jun 2001 19:33:37 -0400 Received: from 216-60-128-137.ati.utexas.edu ([216.60.128.137]:46995 "HELO tsunami.webofficenow.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Sat, 23 Jun 2001 19:33:24 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Rob Landley Reply-To: landley@webofficenow.com To: wichert@cistron.nl (Wichert Akkerman), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Missing help entries in 2.4.6pre5 Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 10:13:28 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] In-Reply-To: <20010621160309.A6744@thyrsus.com> <20010622094934.A13075@thyrsus.com> <9gvj2g$khc$1@picard.cistron.nl> In-Reply-To: <9gvj2g$khc$1@picard.cistron.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <0106221013280M.00692@localhost.localdomain> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Friday 22 June 2001 10:00, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > In article <20010622094934.A13075@thyrsus.com>, > > Eric S. Raymond wrote: > >You're a bit irritated. That's good. I *want* people who don't write > >help entries for their configuration symbols to be a bit irritated. > >That way, they might get around to actually doing what they ought to. > > You mean you actually want people to start ignoring you? There's a really simple solution to that. Eric can just make up his own help file entries that are wildly inaccurate and actively insulting to whoever it is who owns the symbol. Something along the lines of: "Enabling this subsystem may cause your house to burn down and your dog to explode. The prevailing opinion is that Linus was probably blackmailed into including this option by someone with naked pictures of his cat. It's useless and irritating, and just might be removed soon, so don't count on it continuing to be there. Nobody knows how to use it because they didn't provide any documentation for it." Then they're welcome to ignore it. :) Rob (As mel brooks said, it's good to be the help file maintainer...)