Re: Linux 2.6.0-test9

From: John Bradford
Date: Thu Oct 30 2003 - 12:22:15 EST


> > > If the idea is to tell people to read the post-Halowe'en doc and a year
> > > of LKML, it is much the same as telling people to wait for a
> > > distribution.
> >
> > Isn't the purpose of the post-haloween doc to tell people what
> > changed and what needed to be upgraded? What about the
> > linux/Documentation/Changes file?
>
> Given that it is a year out of date and general in nature, it's still a
> pretty useful docuement to someone who does a lot of fiddling anyway.
> But what I think would be very useful would be a small (one screen?)
> HTML doc with links to versions which are current today, one page each
> for a few major distros covering tweaks to startup file and the like,
> and a page of things which aren't mentioned in the post Halowe'en doc,
> like the things that aren't available in modules anymore.

Or a filter which takes a 2.4 .config file as input, and outputs the
relevant sections of the post-Haloween document based on that :-).

John.
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