On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 08:23:04PM -0700, Ian Jones wrote: > Harald Welte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > Hi. I decided to take on the challenge of updating the manpages. I figured > > > that probably everything in base, pending, and submitted that wasn't already > > > in the manpages should be updated. > > please be careful. The manpages should only contain stuff which is actually > > contained in the mainstream kernel. > > > > There are lots of patches in patch-o-matic which will most likely never be > > submitted to the kernel [e.g. due to their experimental nature]. > > > > Those extensions should be documented in the netfilter-extensions-howto. > Doesn't it make a little bit of sense to require the patch to update > the manual if the extension is chosen? We are only talking about a > paragraph and a heading, all of which could be added to a subsection > using a simple template. I'm sure that there would be no shortage of > volunteers to implement this. Those are experimental. So, why not a separate manpage, with available experimental modules ? RV -- _ (°= Hervé Eychenne //) v_/_ WallFire project: http://www.wallfire.org/
