[Cbe-oss-dev] spu* man pages

[Michael Kerrisk]

Jeremy,

How are you going with work on revisions to these man pages?

Cheers,

Michael


Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Wednesday 18 July 2007, Michael Kerrisk wrote:
>>>> Jeremy, I hope it's ok that I'm reposting your work publically. I
>>>> really think it's best to get everyone into a single discussion for
>>>> review.
>>> Yeah, totally fine by me :)
>>>
>>> As I understand it, the commit date for these files (into the next Cell 
>>> SDK) was last month, so I'm not sure how much they can be changed now - 
>>> but comments are still welcome!.
>> Can we avoid having two homes for these man pages?  The pages
>> in question are about system calls, so it seems logical to
>> make man-pages their (sole) home.  What do you think?
> 
> man-pages really should be be their home. The only reason for
> including them in IBM's SDK is that we (mostly me) were slow
> about updating them for upstream inclusion.
> 
> I don't mind letting the SDK version of the man pages stay
> on Jeremy's current version unless we find a major bug in them.
> We should focus on getting them right in upstream only.
> 
>>> I haven't seen Eduardo's changes, will check them out.
>> Thanks.  Let me know if you need me to send copies.
> 
> Eduardo's pages were based on the version from the kernel
> documentation folder, unfortunately these are horribly outdated.
> 
> 	Arnd <><
> 

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