Re: Additional Kernel Numa Man Pages

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Hi Lee,

On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 9:56 PM, Lee Schermerhorn
<Lee.Schermerhorn@xxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-07-30 at 00:04 +0200, Michael Kerrisk wrote:
>> Hi Lee
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 11:54 PM, Lee Schermerhorn
>> <Lee.Schermerhorn@xxxxxx> wrote:
>> > Michael:
>> >
>> > The numactl package contains two man pages that describe core kernel
>> > features.  These are:
>> >
>> > move_pages.2 - system call doc.
>> >
>> > numa_maps.5 - /proc/<pid>/numa_maps documentation.
>> >
>> > IMO, these should be moved into the kernel man pages sources.  All the
>> > other man pages in the numactl package describe user space libs and
>> > tools, so I think they should stay with the package.
>> >
>> > What do you think?
>>
>> Thanks for bringing this up Lee.  I'ts been on my TODO list for a
>> while to do exactly what you suggest.  Can you remove these from the
>> numa package, and send the current versions to me?
>
> Michael:  I have attached the two kernel man pages from the numactl
> package [numactl-2.0.2].  I have some proposed updates to these pages
> that I'll send along shortly.

Have you already started working on these edits?  I ask because
there's a number of grammar and formatting fixes that I'd want to make
to these pages (I coulddo these today and publish a new version of the
page today as well), but if you've already started on a patch to the
existing page, I'll hold off.

Cheers,

Michael


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