From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754214AbXGIFpU (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jul 2007 01:45:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751775AbXGIFox (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jul 2007 01:44:53 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([192.83.249.54]:46009 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751666AbXGIFow (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jul 2007 01:44:52 -0400 Message-ID: <4691C95F.7080502@zytor.com> Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2007 22:36:31 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11/20070419) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Kunai, Takashi" CC: holzheu@linux.vnet.ibm.com, Rob Landley , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, lf_kernel_messages@linux-foundation.org, mtk-manpages@gmx.net, jack@suse.cz, randy.dunlap@oracle.com, gregkh@suse.de, pavel@ucw.cz, tim.bird@am.sony.com, gh@us.ibm.com, arjan@infradead.org, sam@ravnborg.org, jengelh@computergmbh.de, joe@perches.com, auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com, hansendc@us.ibm.com, davem@davemloft.net, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, kenistoj@us.ibm.com, schwidefsky@de.ibm.com, heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com Subject: Re: Documentation of kernel messages (Summary) References: <1181747217.29512.9.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20070613111549.db1fa4d9.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <1182779321.7142.15.camel@localhost.localdomain> <200706251144.48658.rob@landley.net> <1182957079.6643.13.camel@localhost.localdomain> <4691C480.5010600@linux-foundation.jp> In-Reply-To: <4691C480.5010600@linux-foundation.jp> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Kunai, Takashi wrote: > (1) Your kernel development proposal will be greatly supported by > Japanese vendor community. At the same time, it needs support from the > kernel communities, as well. There is a very strong reason for the kernel community to NOT support this: it makes it much harder to deal with bug reports. Like it or not, English is a lingua franca[1] of the technology industry. When I deal with the rest of the kernel community, I use English, instead of my native language (Swedish). For things that are targetted toward end users, that's a different matter, of course, but kernel messages are inherently directed toward developers and technically sophisticated users. -hpa