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From: "Christopher Friesen" <cfriesen@nortel.com>
To: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Cc: Xose Vazquez Perez <xose.vazquez@gmail.com>,
	"Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Documentation dir is a mess
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 13:22:03 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <43821E5B.3040307@nortel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200511211205.12861.rob@landley.net>

Rob Landley wrote:

> Except that I picked proc.txt because the contents of the file are really 
> about the whole source tree.  (This isn't documentation about the proc 
> filesystem infrastructure, it's documentation about all known users of that 
> infrastructure...)

This depends on how you're looking at it.

Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt is written from a "user" perspective, 
not a "kernel developer" perspective.

 From the user perspective, this file documents the contents of "/proc" 
which is one single place.

Chris

  reply	other threads:[~2005-11-21 19:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-20 12:19 [RFC] Documentation dir is a mess Xose Vazquez Perez
2005-11-21  0:30 ` Greg KH
2005-11-21  1:56   ` Steven Rostedt
2005-11-21 17:34     ` Marc Koschewski
2005-11-22  6:06       ` Matthew Frost
2005-11-22  9:18         ` Paul Jackson
2005-11-22 13:46           ` Steven Rostedt
2005-11-22 18:42             ` Paul Jackson
2005-11-22  9:56         ` Marc Koschewski
2005-11-25 19:53   ` [RFC PATCH] was " Xose Vazquez Perez
2005-11-21 16:28 ` Rob Landley
2005-11-21 16:44   ` Christopher Friesen
2005-11-21 18:05     ` Rob Landley
2005-11-21 19:22       ` Christopher Friesen [this message]
2005-11-21 16:46   ` Jiri Slaby
2005-11-25 20:27   ` Xose Vazquez Perez

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