hello. As someone who regularly works on the kernel, yes, I have
kernel sources, but
having man pages that provide some explanation of various parts of the source
is very helpful.
So, I would support making man pages available as is proposed. Man pages are a
great
supplement to source
>> So to clarify: I'm proposing to convert the rst doc pages to man
>> pages [...]
> I wouldn't bother installing man pages for this, someone working on
> the kernel already has the source tree.
With vanishingly few exceptions (notable by their rarity), source code
is not documentation. There's a
On Tue, Oct 17, 2023 at 02:33:43PM +0100, Robert Swindells wrote:
>
> tlaro...@kergis.com wrote:
> > So to clarify: I'm proposing to convert the rst doc pages to man
> > pages (with for example the utility I cite), and to add the man pages,
> > in man format, to the sources (in order for the sourc
tlaro...@kergis.com wrote:
> So to clarify: I'm proposing to convert the rst doc pages to man
> pages (with for example the utility I cite), and to add the man pages,
> in man format, to the sources (in order for the sources to not depend
> on a supplementary external tool) and to install the man
[I mean to reply to Mouse, but I have a hell of a time with majordomo or
this mailing list: I'm subscribed but I don't get the messages! Can
someone look at this, please. TIA.]
So to clarify: I'm proposing to convert the rst doc pages to man
pages (with for example the utility I cite), and to add
> There is no man page for drmkms (the kernel part), but there are man
> pages in the X sources, in the rst format [...]
Would it maybe be worth creating a tiny manpage that just says "go look
over there for docs"? I don't _like_ having manpages in yet _another_
markup language, but I prefer that
I have modified drm.4 to state that the drivers are obsolete and
to suppress a mention of viadrm that was removed long ago (now superseded by
viadrmums, provided in drm2/ ---drmkms--- part).
Patch can be retrieved from https://github.com/tlaronde/src
There is no man page for drmkms (the kernel p
