On Mon, Mar 09, 2015 at 03:17:58PM +0100, Stephan Mueller wrote: > Hi Michael, > > how shall an update to the Documentation/ tree be handled in man pages > that contain a pointer to these documents? > > Specifically, socket(2) contains a reference to > Documentation/crypto/crypto-API-userspace.txt. With the patch [1] the > document is gone and its contents is moved into a DocBook. > > Shall the kernel DocBook website [2] be referenced? If so, when is it > appropriate to add the patch (note, the change is expected to be > propagated to Linus' tree in 4.1-rc1). Referencing a kernel Documentation file from a man page sounds like a bad idea to me. Why can't we include a nroff-yfied version of the content in the man-pages repository? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
