From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761609AbXGJGiQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Jul 2007 02:38:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751103AbXGJGiD (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Jul 2007 02:38:03 -0400 Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.162.232]:59176 "EHLO nz-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751108AbXGJGiB (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Jul 2007 02:38:01 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=aaeY8on2CM4j1ZG1zoUV84o1neZzWo8Lu6ElZVWMp9a/PfKZc25VUnaOIBtVx7w4T5Pu383sq9veR0UWDqr3R+iUUSorY1uIXkt/gLPDK+SJ7Nm/sbo51Vw+B3FEjwf8f+OueFb5PoC5LQvkNzYZBFk+imQaRU6QFdDPQ9to0Z4= Message-ID: Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 06:38:00 +0000 From: "Dave Young" To: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: Documentation of kernel messages (Summary) Cc: "Kunai, Takashi" , 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 In-Reply-To: <4691C95F.7080502@zytor.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline 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> <4691C95F.7080502@zytor.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, On 7/9/07, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > 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. > I strongly agree with you. Please keep kernel clean.