On 2/13/08, Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 12:59:43AM -0500, Scott Lovenberg wrote: > > Randy Dunlap wrote: > >> On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 09:08:12 +0700 Mulyadi Santosa wrote: > >> > >> > >>> Hi all... > >>> > >>> Here's my idea: what if we collaborate to extend and make the kernel > >>> documentation better? I have done (slow) start by editing profile= > >>> kernel param. It's not accepted by Adrian Bunk, but at least I did it. > >>> Feedback? > >>> > >> > >> Adrian is no longer the trivial patch maintainer. > >> Did you send the patch to trivial@xxxxxxxxxx ? > >> > >> Any doc additions or improvements would be appreciated. > >> I'll be glad to help get them merged... > >> > >> --- > >> ~Randy > >> > >> > > I'd love to help, but I'm a bit of a newbie; what's protocol for > > documentation updates, standard diffs? > > Yes. > > > How are we going to attack this thing, cleaning up and updating existing > > documentation first and then adding undocumented items, or file by file > > updating and adding in one fell swoop? > > File by file. > > And please place the new documentation of sysfs and procfs entries into > the framework in the Documentation/ABI/ directory tree, which is where > it belongs. > > thanks, > > greg k-h > some questions: a. the list of parameters can presumably be extracted from existing file via "procname" search.....not sure if it is correct (as per attached, complete?) b. what is the diff between /proc and /sys? in Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt....it is mentioned that /proc information will be published into a book...where is it? I can never understand this. c. in Doc/sysctl are all the explanation for /proc/sys/* .... as a start i think we shall contribute fixing here....but according to your email, we should fix Doc/ABI...so I supposed some migration is needed? d. In networking/ip-sysctl.txt a lot of the explanation for the attached procname's parameters are explained, may be we can relocate it to ABI? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
