Theodore Tso wrote: > On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 11:25:08PM +0800, Yang Hongyang wrote: >>> If folks do find the 00-INDEX files useful, my suggestion would be to >>> make a way of automatically extracting them from the individual files >>> and/or directories, and then making the 00-INDEX files to be >>> automatically generated. >> Sounds like a good idea but How to automatically generate >> the summaries then? > > Well, for text files (including subdirectory's 00-INDEX files) we > could have a convention which is the first line of the file should be > a (max 60 characters) one-line summary of the file. > > We would probably have to do something special with non-free-form-text > files, including structured text files like Docbook files. So it's > not quite so straightforward, but it should be doable. Yeah,if we do this one-line summary thing,we still have to go through all these documents.So why not just update the 00-INDEX and then tell the authors that will add docs to the kernel do the "00-INDEX work" themselves? > > - Ted > > -- Regards Yang Hongyang -- 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
