From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932413AbWBFWvq (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Feb 2006 17:51:46 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932418AbWBFWvp (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Feb 2006 17:51:45 -0500 Received: from detroit.securenet-server.net ([209.51.153.26]:46248 "EHLO detroit.securenet-server.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932414AbWBFWvo (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Feb 2006 17:51:44 -0500 From: Jesse Barnes To: "Michael Kerrisk" Subject: Re: man-pages-2.22 is released Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2006 14:51:36 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.9 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, michael.kerrisk@gmx.net References: <16806.1139255986@www031.gmx.net> In-Reply-To: <16806.1139255986@www031.gmx.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200602061451.37028.jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - detroit.securenet-server.net X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - vger.kernel.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - virtuousgeek.org X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Monday, February 6, 2006 11:59 am, Michael Kerrisk wrote: > This is a request to kernel developers: if you make a change > to a kernel-userland interface, or observe a discrepancy > between the manual pages and reality, would you please send > me (at mtk-manpages@gmx.net ) one of the following > (in decreasing order of preference): Wouldn't it be easier for you to keep them up to date if sections 2, 4, and parts of 5 were included in the kernel source tree? Documentation updates could be enforced as part of the patch process--all you'd have to do is NAK patches that modified userland interfaces if they didn't contain documentation updates (and I'm sure others would help you with that task). Likewise with the glibc stuff. Doesn't it belong with the glibc project? Wouldn't that make more sense, both from a packaging and maintenance perspective? Either way, thanks a lot for keeping the pages in good shape, it's much appreciated. Thanks, Jesse