Re: [patch] kernel API documentation system

Garst R. Reese (reese@isn.net)
Sun, 26 Sep 1999 21:22:20 -0300


http://hottemax.uni-muenster.de/~grover/juju.html

Jes>> Well this makes it impossible to look at your patch, try using a
Jes>> sane encoding format such as uuencoding or plain ascii.

Nat> Oh, come on. MIME is extremely common these days. The fact that
Nat> you use an antiquated mailreader which doesn't understand it is
Nat> hardly Jeff's fault. I could understand a complaint of "not
Nat> everyone can read MIME, could you repost a uuencoded version?",
Nat> but your complaint is abrasive enough to be unreasonable.

> GNUS can deal with MIME just fine, it doesn't make it less painful
> though. base64 is the real problem since it relies on the mime heards
> and cannot be decoded if those are not in place.

> Jes
juju can extract mime stuff from lkd just fine. I've been using it about
a year after complaining the same as you. But still I am unlikely to
read such unless it really interests me.

As to documentation, literate programming would seem to solve these
problems.
Maybe for linux-v5.
Check out:
http://shelob.ce.ttu.edu/daves/faq.html
Garst

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