Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Wed, 23 Jul 1997 11:58:23 +0200 | From | Andries.Brouwer@cwi ... | Subject | Re: Lets fix it! Re: kernel documentation is bad |
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Stephen Williams:
:: What would be really helpful is a small man page for every function within :: the kernel, and a few mino-howtos for some common driver writer tricks. :: DDI man pages.
: amethyst@maxwell.ml.org said: :: Speaking of which, why did LDP take away section 9?
: Who knows. Maybe we should re-introduce them... or make up our own set.
I removed man9 because there was extremely little, and what was there was outdated or wrong.
Documenting single functions is hardly a worthwhile activity. But `global' documentation is useful.
Man pages are not the right medium to convey this type of information.
Andries
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