Re: Documentation about sysfs/procfs entries

[Greg KH]

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
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