Re: Changelogs on kernel.org

Matthias Andree
2002-05-14T08:44:11Z

On Tue, 14 May 2002, Tomas Szepe wrote:

> > - Added an usage note
> > - Changed CMODE environment variable for a command line argument
>
> Thanks, but the idea behind CMODE is that it's possible to set the
> output mode and still have the script act both as a filter and file
> eater (multiple changelogs on cmdline are ok of course) w/o having
> to handle the eating "explicitly."
>
> Plus one can put "export CMODE=something" in ~/.profile and forget
> about the modes entirely.
>
> Here comes 0.92 (s/LOWER CAPS/lower case/ as pointed out by
> Kai Henningsen). Let's call it a candidate for inclusion in
> scripts/. Linus?

Too early. It's undocumented, for example.