From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 28 Jun 2001 22:16:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 28 Jun 2001 22:16:29 -0400 Received: from hacksaw.org ([216.41.5.170]:6879 "EHLO habitrail.home.fools-errant.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 28 Jun 2001 22:16:17 -0400 Message-Id: <200106290216.f5T2GEE16780@habitrail.home.fools-errant.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.2 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.3 To: "J . A . Magallon" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Cosmetic JFFS patch. In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 29 Jun 2001 00:04:42 +0200." <20010629000442.A4544@werewolf.able.es> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 22:16:14 -0400 From: Hacksaw Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Given that seeing as much as possible on a potentially small screen would be good, maybe tighter would be nice. In example: kswapd: v1.8 pty Devices: 256 Unix98 ptys configured serial: v5.05b (2001-05-03) with Options: MANY_PORTS SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI Devices: ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A rtclock: v1.10d ide: v6.31 net: v4.0 for Linux 2.2, from Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 Unix domain sockets 1.0 for NET4.0. TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP TCP: Hash tables configured (ehash 524288 bhash 65536) IPv4 over IPv4 tunneling driver early initialization of device tunl0 is deferred AppleTalk 0.18 for NET4.0 My hope would be that the name at the extreme left column would be the name of the module that would be loaded if it were a module, and the name of the main code file of the driver in question. That way, those trying to debug stuff could go right to the appropriate file, and start reading the code or nearby documentation. Of course, the spacing I have above is optimistic, but just making sure that a new driver prints it's version line against the left margin, and everything else a few spaces out would help readability. You might note that I eliminated the word Linux in 5 or 6 places. We know the driver works with Linux if it is booting. On the other hand "vX.X for Linux 2.X" is useful, since it's part of the version number. Your opinion may vary.