From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263190AbTDLHye (for ); Sat, 12 Apr 2003 03:54:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263191AbTDLHye (for ); Sat, 12 Apr 2003 03:54:34 -0400 Received: from 81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk ([81.2.122.30]:20096 "EHLO 81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263190AbTDLHya (for ); Sat, 12 Apr 2003 03:54:30 -0400 From: John Bradford Message-Id: <200304120748.h3C7miMO000394@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk> Subject: Re: kernel support for non-English user messages To: 76306.1226@compuserve.com (Chuck Ebbert) Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2003 08:48:44 +0100 (BST) Cc: torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (linux-kernel) In-Reply-To: <200304111823_MC3-1-3412-C273@compuserve.com> from "Chuck Ebbert" at Apr 11, 2003 06:21:36 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL6] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > > I thought you might be seriously in need of some mental evaluation > > when you claimed that users "liked looking up error numbers in > > manuals". > > Not the looking up part, but that fact that the explanation > for every single message the software could emit was available. > > Today it's all HTML documents or PDFs or something, but it's still > a staggering amount of information. I have ~300MB of Oracle > documentation on one desktop, 6 of it server error messages alone. > Every possible message is explained to some extent, except this one: [SNIP] > which is currently pretty much the only explanation available for > a whole lot of Linux error messages. I can go read the source when e.g. > the md driver splats its internal status dumps all over the console > during array rebuild, but that doesn't help much. /Documentation could be a lot better than it is... Some of it is very out of date. John.