From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754540AbZKHPao (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Nov 2009 10:30:44 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754478AbZKHPam (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Nov 2009 10:30:42 -0500 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.171]:50451 "EHLO moutng.kundenserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754304AbZKHPaj (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Nov 2009 10:30:39 -0500 From: Arnd Bergmann To: =?utf-8?q?Am=C3=A9rico_Wang?= Subject: Re: [PATCH] Please get this committed, _NOW_ (preferrably 5 years ago), thanks. Date: Sun, 8 Nov 2009 16:30:32 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.2 (Linux/2.6.31-14-generic; KDE/4.3.2; x86_64; ; ) Cc: Andreas Mohr , Linus Torvalds , "Michael A. Griffith" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20091108120008.GA21611@rhlx01.hs-esslingen.de> <20091108144548.GA13429@rhlx01.hs-esslingen.de> <20091108151153.GC6240@hack> In-Reply-To: <20091108151153.GC6240@hack> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <200911081630.32926.arnd@arndb.de> X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX18w02E/Nvz88XAWNuRtZvsfPpQdgCbegHG1be1 JjKHtl5UpOUjuNeusdqnGrXMP+HjmUwaJvdv0S5pxqS4Mr1Gvo jx99YxEkif5fh4wMgGL1A== Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sunday 08 November 2009, Américo Wang wrote: > >Plus in my case it was a kernel issue (problematic/non-working serial > >console device). And except for the linker issues of missing libraries, > >many issues (USB functionality etc.) were kernel-related, too. > > Yeah, I mentioned it to mean it is not suitable to explain > user-space problems in a kernel source file. Putting it into a kernel > doc should be fine. I think it would be best to put it on a wiki page, e.g. on kernelnewbies.org and point to that. That means you will be able to add information to it independent of the kernel version. Arnd <><