On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 16:46:41 -0500 Rob Landley wrote: > Once again, "distribute it with the kernel" is seen as some kind of magic. > It's not. Honest and truly it's not. It just means that updating the > documentation results in your post getting lost in the noise on linux-kernel > and having to go through the four-layer bureaucracy (developer, maintainer, > sour cream, lieutenant, baked beans, Andrew, Linus) with somebody objecting > along the way that your patch has the signed-off-by line in the wrong > position and you forgot to include three magic dashes as mentioned section 14 > paragraph 21 of Documentation/SubmittingPatches (no seriously, look it up), > and in any case you weren't supposed to send it to THIS list you should have > sent it to netfilter-devel (didn't you read > http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html? What's wrong with you?) and then > it's still being ignored after the third repost two months later... We all sometimes have to send patches more than one time before they are merged. > Among other things, I'm interested in documenting system calls and ioctls. I > didn't even know "man 2 syscalls" existed until last week. (I was pulling up > man 2 syscall and not getting an index. :) There isn't a man page for ioctls > but I can start with: find /usr/include/linux -type f | xargs grep "_IO.(" and with Documentation/ioctl* --- ~Randy *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
