Re: Documentation of kernel messages (Summary)

[Tsugikazu Shibata <tshibata@ab.jp.nec.com>]

On Sat, 14 Jul 2007 22:12:35 -0400, rob wrote:
> On Friday 13 July 2007 9:46:59 pm Tsugikazu Shibata wrote:
> > > > How about adding;
> > > > kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt
> > >
> > > The problem is, the generated htmdocs are in english.  This file is about
> > > how to generate (and author) English documentation that won't be
> > > translated. What's the point of translating the instructions if the
> > > result won't be translated?
> >
> > People (who even in non-native) would better to know and read it such
> > htmldocs because there are good and important documents even in English.
> > I thought that translation of this file may help.
> 
> The english version of htmldocs is generated from the source code.    If 
> translating remotely current versions of htmldocs into other languages was 
> feasible, then the english version wouldn't need to be in the source code in 
> the first place.
> 
> Translating a document _about_ htmldocs boils down to "Dear non-english 
> speaker: here's something you can't read, nor can you update it either except 
> though your language maintainer."

No, kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO includes explanation of tools to extract the
document, format of extractable document in source files and so on.
I thought this file would help non-native people, how to extract or add
in-kernel extractable documents.
I understand that these tools will generate English documents but
that's OK. Such large volume of documents are not easy to translate
into other languages.

> 
> Rob
> -- 
> "One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code."
>   - Ken Thompson.
> 
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