On 03/09/2015 05:05 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Mon, Mar 09, 2015 at 05:03:52PM +0100, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: >> Actually, a lot of man pages do refer to kernel Documentation files. >> What's the problem? > > It's not easily accessibe and coherent information. It requires a > checked out kernel tree (or a web mirror these days), which might > be a different version than you expect. Referencing actually installed > case documentation like man page or at least info pages is a lot easier > for the user. I agree that installed documentation is preferable, but sometimes it's not always practical to get that documentation in the desired form. So, failing that man-pages does quite often reference kernel source files. Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ -- 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
