From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 22 Jun 2001 09:51:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 22 Jun 2001 09:51:11 -0400 Received: from snark.tuxedo.org ([207.106.50.26]:26120 "EHLO snark.thyrsus.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 22 Jun 2001 09:51:01 -0400 Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 09:54:26 -0400 From: "Eric S. Raymond" To: Russell King Cc: David Woodhouse , CML2 , kbuild-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: Missing help entries in 2.4.6pre5 Message-ID: <20010622095426.C13075@thyrsus.com> Reply-To: esr@thyrsus.com Mail-Followup-To: "Eric S. Raymond" , Russell King , David Woodhouse , CML2 , kbuild-devel@lists.sourceforge.net In-Reply-To: <20010621160309.A6744@thyrsus.com> <20010621154934.A6582@thyrsus.com> <20010621205537.X18978@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20010621160309.A6744@thyrsus.com> <7987.993197604@redhat.com> <20010622094934.A13075@thyrsus.com> <20010622144708.D22351@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010622144708.D22351@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>; from rmk@arm.linux.org.uk on Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 02:47:08PM +0100 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Russell King : > On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 09:49:34AM -0400, 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. > > The people you're irritating are not the people who create these symbols > though, so its a little pointless. Irritating port managers a little is good, too. Sometimes, they can get the right person to move. It's happened before. -- Eric S. Raymond A ``decay in the social contract'' is detectable; there is a growing feeling, particularly among middle-income taxpayers, that they are not getting back, from society and government, their money's worth for taxes paid. The tendency is for taxpayers to try to take more control of their finances .. -- IRS Strategic Plan, (May 1984)