On Fri, 17 Mar 2023 at 14:45, Neale Ferguson <ne...@sinenomine.net> wrote:
> I believe in the early 2000s the Linux on 390 developers in Böblingen > attempted to provide a similar mechanism for the kernel but it wasn't well > received by the rest of the community. It's a pity but with so many hands > involved with so many device drivers it was going to be a hard sell. > It's interesting that the Linux world did it for the man pages. With some infrastructure, you could even hide the message identifier from being shown, but still have "man" able to retrieve the proper information. Just have someone come up with the idea to use a SHA1 rather than a cryptic message identifier, and they will embrace it. The kernel and device drivers are a bit different because you don't have man pages there. It will take them also a few decades before users insist on having online help for kernel parameters and device drivers, rather than separate text files on kernel.org Rob ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www2.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
