From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964970AbWBGEkc (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Feb 2006 23:40:32 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964975AbWBGEkc (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Feb 2006 23:40:32 -0500 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.21]:53726 "HELO mail.gmx.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S964970AbWBGEkb (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Feb 2006 23:40:31 -0500 Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2006 05:40:30 +0100 (MET) From: "Michael Kerrisk" To: Jesse Barnes Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, michael.kerrisk@gmx.net MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <200602061617.12713.jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> Subject: Re: man-pages-2.22 is released X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-Authenticated: #24879014 Message-ID: <16940.1139287230@www031.gmx.net> X-Mailer: WWW-Mail 1.6 (Global Message Exchange) X-Flags: 0001 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > On Monday, February 6, 2006 2:59 pm, Michael Kerrisk wrote: > > > Wouldn't it be easier for you to keep them up to date if sections 2, > > > 4, and parts of 5 were included in the kernel source tree? > > > Documentation updates could be enforced as part of the patch > > > process--all you'd have to do is NAK patches that modified userland > > > interfaces if they didn't contain documentation updates (and I'm > > > sure others would help you with that task). > > > > Life is not so simple, as I think we discussed when you made > > a similar comment after my man-pages-2.08 release. Maybe the > > system can be improved still. Currently Andrew Morton is being > > rather good about CCing me on patches that are likely to need > > man-pages changes. (Thanks Andrew!) > > Yeah, vigilance is key; maybe I'm wrong that putting the kernel stuff > into the kernel tree would help, but it's worth a try, don't you > think? :) There is no simple solution to this problem, but I will give it some thought one day... Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk maintainer of Linux man pages Sections 2, 3, 4, 5, and 7 Want to help with man page maintenance? Grab the latest tarball at ftp://ftp.win.tue.nl/pub/linux-local/manpages/, read the HOWTOHELP file and grep the source files for 'FIXME'.