Hi Rob,
On Tue, 2007-07-10 at 12:12 -0400, Rob Landley wrote:
[snip]
> > Yeah, but it seems like having a translations directory in the kernel
> > avoids that problem - anyone can update, it is a single source, no digging
> > for sites that aren't tied to the kernel, available in the distros
> > directly, etc.
>
> No. It doesn't help.
>
> 99% of the kernel directory is C. That means any random passerby can review
> code. Everyone who has the kernel tarball should be able to review code
> that's in there, plus when you compile it breaks. So merging _code_ into the
> kernel helps keep it up to date.
>
> Merging documentation into the kernel doesn't help keep it up to date, because
> documentation being out of date doesn't break the build. It may get the
> documentation more review, but the existing state of Documentation/* argues
> against that. It's a struggle to keep the english versions on the same
> continent as "up to date" or "complete", and most of the _good_ documentation
> is out in OLS papers and such (which I'm off indexing as we speak).
With the checker tool, which we suggested in the initial proposal, it is
possible to verify
* that every marked message has a description
* that there are no descriptions without corresponding messages
* that format strings of message and description match
So when compiling the kernel using C=1, you will at least see warnings,
when a message has changed or a message disappeared:
>> make modules C=1
CHK include/linux/version.h
CHK include/linux/utsrelease.h
CHECK drivers/kmsgtest/kmsgtest.c
drivers/kmsgtest/kmsgtest.c: Missing description for: kmsgtest.1
drivers/kmsgtest/kmsgtest.c: Description without message for: kmsgtest.3
Michael
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