From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262194AbTDKWyZ (for ); Fri, 11 Apr 2003 18:54:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262174AbTDKWxZ (for ); Fri, 11 Apr 2003 18:53:25 -0400 Received: from e2.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.102]:60813 "EHLO e2.ny.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262000AbTDKWxG (for ); Fri, 11 Apr 2003 18:53:06 -0400 Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 15:53:46 -0700 From: "Martin J. Bligh" To: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com> cc: linux-kernel Subject: Re: kernel support for non-English user messages Message-ID: <156450000.1050101626@flay> In-Reply-To: <200304111823_MC3-1-3412-C273@compuserve.com> References: <200304111823_MC3-1-3412-C273@compuserve.com> X-Mailer: Mulberry/2.1.2 (Linux/x86) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >> I thought you might be seriously in need of some mental evaluation >> when you claimed that users "liked looking up error numbers in >> manuals". > > > Not the looking up part, but that fact that the explanation > for every single message the software could emit was available. > > Today it's all HTML documents or PDFs or something, but it's still > a staggering amount of information. I have ~300MB of Oracle > documentation on one desktop, 6 of it server error messages alone. > Every possible message is explained to some extent, except this one: IMHO, it'd be better to just make the kernel error messages meaningful. Keeping a large pile of documentation in sync with the source is a PITA. M.