Re: Configure.help is complete

Alexander Viro
2001-05-31T19:57:30Z

On Thu, 31 May 2001, Arjan van de Ven wrote:

> JosИ Luis Domingo LСpez wrote:
> >
> > On Thursday, 31 May 2001, at 13:24:54 -0400,
> > Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> >
> > > It gives me great pleasure to announce that the Configure.help master
> > > file is now complete with respect to 2.4.5. Every single one of the
> > > 2699 configuration symbols actually used in the 2.4.5 codebase's C
> > > source files or Makefiles now has an entry in Configure.help.
> > >
> > Would it be great to have a similar documentation for those hundreds of
> > "files" under /proc ?. Something like:
>
> <snip>
> Powertweak has descriptions for most of the usable /proc entries,
> in XML format but the descriptions are easily extractable. Maybe it's
> a good idea to make the powertweak set complete instead / share the set
> with the kernel docs.

We should start removing the crap from procfs in 2.5. Documenting shit is
a good step, but taking it out would be better.