From: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
Cc: Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au>,
David Garfield <garfield@irving.iisd.sra.com>,
Linux Kernel List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Configure.help editorial policy
Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2001 18:12:40 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011223181240.A25679@thyrsus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011224100032.A17985@zapff.research.canon.com.au> <Pine.LNX.4.33L.0112232108470.12081-100000@imladris.surriel.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33L.0112232108470.12081-100000@imladris.surriel.com>; from riel@conectiva.com.br on Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 09:10:35PM -0200
Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>:
> It doesn't help anything if there are more precise
> terms when they're used inconsistently. Somebody will
> have to check and fix this, continuously.
The situation is not as bad as you think, Rik. I grepped; the Documentation
subtree only has 17 instances of KB, of which about 6 clearly don't need
correcting as they really are referring to disk capacities. The patch to
fix these references would not be large.
--
<a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
...Virtually never are murderers the ordinary, law-abiding people
against whom gun bans are aimed. Almost without exception, murderers
are extreme aberrants with lifelong histories of crime, substance
abuse, psychopathology, mental retardation and/or irrational violence
against those around them, as well as other hazardous behavior, e.g.,
automobile and gun accidents."
-- Don B. Kates, writing on statistical patterns in gun crime
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-12-23 23:26 UTC|newest]
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2001-12-20 19:32 Configure.help editorial policy Eric S. Raymond
2001-12-20 20:27 ` Reid Hekman
2001-12-20 20:23 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-12-22 0:04 ` Rob Landley
2001-12-20 22:41 ` Mike Eldridge
2001-12-21 15:47 ` Matthias Andree
2001-12-20 22:49 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2001-12-20 23:31 ` David Garfield
2001-12-20 23:52 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-12-21 0:20 ` Tom Rini
2001-12-21 13:01 ` Configure.help editorial policy (H20 and K2B) Timothy Covell
2001-12-21 19:56 ` Timothy Covell
2001-12-21 18:43 ` Configure.help editorial policy David Garfield
2001-12-21 18:40 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-12-21 19:18 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2001-12-21 20:09 ` Oliver Xymoron
2001-12-21 23:03 ` Jeff Mcadams
2001-12-27 10:35 ` Kai Henningsen
2001-12-21 20:10 ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-12-21 20:31 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2001-12-21 20:36 ` Rik van Riel
2001-12-21 20:47 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2001-12-21 21:00 ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-12-21 21:06 ` Rik van Riel
2001-12-21 21:10 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2001-12-21 21:33 ` Thomas Dodd
2001-12-21 22:05 ` Nicholas Knight
2001-12-22 0:07 ` Oliver Xymoron
2001-12-22 0:27 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2001-12-23 22:46 ` Cameron Simpson
2001-12-21 20:57 ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-12-21 21:03 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2001-12-21 21:09 ` Rik van Riel
2001-12-21 21:28 ` Oliver Xymoron
2001-12-27 11:12 ` Kai Henningsen
2001-12-27 11:22 ` Kai Henningsen
2001-12-27 11:18 ` Kai Henningsen
2001-12-21 20:11 ` Timo Jantunen
2001-12-22 0:32 ` Alan Cox
2001-12-22 16:14 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2001-12-27 19:44 ` Allan Sandfeld
2001-12-27 20:18 ` Acrimon Beet
2001-12-27 10:45 ` Kai Henningsen
2001-12-27 14:19 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2001-12-21 21:17 ` Rik van Riel
2001-12-23 22:42 ` Cameron Simpson
2001-12-23 22:53 ` Rik van Riel
2001-12-23 22:46 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-12-26 17:44 ` Riley Williams
2001-12-26 22:17 ` Cameron Simpson
2001-12-26 23:34 ` Dominik Mierzejewski
2001-12-27 0:08 ` Riley Williams
2001-12-27 0:52 ` Dominik Mierzejewski
2001-12-27 21:34 ` Riley Williams
2001-12-27 23:27 ` Pavel Machek
2001-12-27 6:02 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-12-27 11:24 ` Dominik Mierzejewski
2001-12-27 15:09 ` Martin Mares
2001-12-28 3:23 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-12-28 9:58 ` Matthias Andree
2001-12-27 0:09 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-12-27 0:39 ` Dominik Mierzejewski
2001-12-27 19:46 ` Riley Williams
2001-12-27 11:46 ` Kai Henningsen
2001-12-27 21:42 ` Riley Williams
2001-12-23 23:00 ` Cameron Simpson
2001-12-23 23:10 ` Rik van Riel
2001-12-23 23:12 ` Eric S. Raymond [this message]
2001-12-24 6:25 ` Mike Galbraith
2001-12-27 15:15 ` Gábor Lénárt
2001-12-21 22:53 ` Stephen Satchell
2001-12-21 22:55 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-12-21 23:07 ` Nicholas Knight
2001-12-22 19:40 ` T. A.
2001-12-22 0:12 ` Rob Landley
2001-12-22 9:58 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-12-23 9:40 ` Rob Landley
2001-12-23 19:11 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-12-27 11:35 ` Kai Henningsen
2001-12-23 9:47 ` David Woodhouse
2001-12-27 11:41 ` Kai Henningsen
2001-12-21 19:12 ` David Weinehall
2001-12-22 4:49 ` Keith Owens
2001-12-21 20:23 ` David Garfield
2001-12-21 20:56 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-12-21 10:36 ` Mike Jagdis
2001-12-22 0:23 ` Rob Landley
2001-12-22 8:33 ` Eric Windisch
2001-12-22 8:53 ` Alan Cox
2001-12-23 9:17 ` David Woodhouse
[not found] ` <esr@thyrsus.com>
2001-12-27 11:57 ` Kai Henningsen
2001-12-27 14:22 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2001-12-27 16:42 ` Alan Cox
2001-12-29 17:22 ` Dan Hopper
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-09-29 13:44 Possible GPL Violation of Linux in Amstrad's E3 Videophone Ralph Corderoy
2004-10-01 14:52 ` Denis Vlasenko
2004-10-01 14:20 ` Alan Cox
2004-10-01 15:59 ` Ralph Corderoy
2004-10-01 16:00 ` Alan Cox
2004-10-01 16:24 ` Jon Masters
2004-10-01 15:59 ` Alan Cox
2004-10-01 17:18 ` Jon Masters
2005-01-07 21:48 ` Jonathan McDowell
2005-01-15 13:43 ` Jonathan McDowell
2005-01-26 16:47 ` Jonathan McDowell
2004-10-01 17:24 ` Tigran Aivazian
2004-10-01 16:14 ` James Courtier-Dutton
[not found] <20020316113536.A19495@hq.fsmlabs.com.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
[not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.33.0203161037160.31913-100000@penguin.transmeta.com.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
[not found] ` <20020316115726.B19495@hq.fsmlabs.com.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2002-03-16 19:32 ` [Lse-tech] Re: 10.31 second kernel compile Andi Kleen
2002-03-16 19:57 ` yodaiken
2002-03-16 20:05 ` Andi Kleen
2002-03-16 20:12 ` yodaiken
2002-03-16 20:34 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-03-16 21:39 ` yodaiken
2002-03-16 21:49 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-03-17 14:38 ` Kai Henningsen
2002-03-17 18:20 ` Alan Cox
2002-03-17 20:55 ` 2.4.19-pre3-ac1 - Quotactl patch Shawn Starr
2002-03-17 22:22 ` Alan Cox
2002-03-18 1:49 ` Shawn Starr
2002-03-18 1:30 ` OT: "real" letters [Was: 10.31 second kernel compile] Itai Nahshon
2002-03-21 0:38 ` Derek Fawcus
2002-03-21 4:25 ` Tim Coleman
2002-03-16 22:00 ` [Lse-tech] Re: 10.31 second kernel compile Alan Cox
2002-03-16 21:49 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-03-16 23:10 ` yodaiken
2002-03-17 1:17 ` rddunlap
2002-03-17 3:34 ` Alan Cox
2002-03-17 14:52 ` Kai Henningsen
2002-03-17 21:00 ` yodaiken
2002-03-19 12:06 ` Pavel Machek
2002-03-19 21:12 ` yodaiken
2002-03-19 22:09 ` Chris Friesen
2002-03-19 22:15 ` yodaiken
2002-03-20 4:25 ` Bill Davidsen
2002-03-16 20:27 ` Richard Gooch
2002-03-16 20:47 ` yodaiken
2002-03-16 21:05 ` Richard Gooch
2002-03-16 23:34 ` yodaiken
2002-03-17 13:48 ` Rik van Riel
2002-03-17 2:50 ` Chris Wedgwood
2002-03-17 3:43 ` Alan Cox
2002-03-17 4:12 ` Chris Wedgwood
2002-03-17 4:31 ` Alan Cox
2002-03-16 20:14 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-03-16 20:22 ` Andi Kleen
2002-03-19 4:34 ` Rusty Russell
2002-03-17 13:23 ` Rik van Riel
2002-03-17 18:16 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-03-17 23:01 ` Davide Libenzi
2002-03-18 0:53 ` Rik van Riel
2002-03-18 1:13 ` Davide Libenzi
2002-03-18 1:31 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-03-18 1:56 ` Davide Libenzi
2002-03-18 1:40 ` Mike Fedyk
2002-03-18 1:48 ` Davide Libenzi
2002-03-24 21:12 ` Rogier Wolff
2002-03-24 21:35 ` Andrew Morton
2002-03-24 22:54 ` Nick Craig-Wood
2002-03-24 23:41 ` Andi Kleen
2002-03-25 6:40 ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-03-16 20:36 ` Richard Gooch
2002-03-16 20:38 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-03-16 20:51 ` Richard Gooch
2001-12-30 12:06 Configure.help editorial policy Martin Knoblauch
2001-12-30 4:10 Timothy A. Seufert
2001-12-27 20:20 Andries.Brouwer
2001-12-27 15:42 Andries.Brouwer
2001-12-27 17:33 ` Timo Jantunen
2001-12-25 20:54 Andries.Brouwer
2001-12-24 11:08 Matt Reuther
2001-12-23 23:44 Andries.Brouwer
2001-12-23 4:06 Andries.Brouwer
2001-12-25 11:40 ` Pavel Machek
2001-12-23 3:40 Andries.Brouwer
2001-12-22 20:32 Timothy A. Seufert
2001-12-27 12:26 ` Kai Henningsen
2001-12-27 14:55 ` Davidovac Zoran
2001-12-22 13:30 Per Jessen
2001-12-22 2:42 Thomas Hood
2001-12-21 19:34 Timothy Covell
2001-12-21 20:24 ` Chris Ricker
2001-12-22 2:01 ` Timothy Covell
[not found] <Pine.LNX.4.33.0112201605310.9934-100000@coffee.psychology.mcmaster.ca>
2001-12-20 21:28 ` Reid Hekman
2001-12-28 13:10 ` David Woodhouse
2001-12-27 12:10 ` Kai Henningsen
2001-12-20 21:17 Petr Vandrovec
2001-09-10 5:05 Problem with i810 chipset Steve Kieu
2001-09-10 13:40 ` Alan Cox
2001-09-10 14:48 ` Xavier Bestel
2001-09-10 21:50 ` Horst von Brand
2001-09-11 0:46 ` Problem with i810 chipset (solved!) Steve Kieu
2001-05-09 7:38 reiserfs, xfs, ext2, ext3 Martín Marqués
2001-05-09 14:49 ` Alan Cox
2001-05-09 11:21 ` Hans Reiser
2001-05-09 21:25 ` Steve Lord
2001-05-09 14:30 ` Hans Reiser
2001-05-09 22:38 ` Steve Lord
2001-05-10 10:19 ` Pekka Pietikainen
2001-05-10 14:38 ` Hans Reiser
2001-05-10 14:42 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-05-10 13:12 ` Andi Kleen
[not found] ` <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
2001-05-10 22:23 ` Daniel Podlejski
2001-05-11 8:32 ` Andi Kleen
2001-05-11 9:34 ` Daniel Podlejski
2001-09-23 2:26 ` [PATCH] tty canonical mode: nicer erase behaviour zefram
2001-09-23 20:05 ` Alan Cox
2001-09-23 20:41 ` Nadav Har'El
2001-09-23 21:50 ` Alan Cox
2001-09-24 9:22 ` Nadav Har'El
2001-09-23 22:57 ` Matthias Andree
2001-09-24 6:45 ` Kai Henningsen
2001-05-09 14:49 ` reiserfs, xfs, ext2, ext3 john slee
2001-05-09 23:12 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-05-09 23:19 ` Dan Hollis
2001-05-10 0:36 ` jlnance
2001-05-10 1:15 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-05-10 8:42 ` Helge Hafting
2001-05-10 13:14 ` Martin Hamilton
2001-05-10 14:32 ` john slee
2001-05-10 14:56 ` Hans Reiser
2001-05-09 18:32 ` Joel Jaeggli
2001-05-10 12:54 ` Martín Marqués
2001-05-09 19:53 ` Daniel Podlejski
2001-05-09 14:14 ` Hans Reiser
2001-05-10 11:44 ` Matthias Andree
2001-05-10 13:42 ` Tony Hoyle
2001-05-10 14:45 ` Hans Reiser
2001-05-10 16:38 ` [OT] Linux on ENIAC Laramie Leavitt
2001-05-10 16:53 ` mirabilos
2001-05-10 23:39 ` reiserfs, xfs, ext2, ext3 Matthias Andree
2001-05-11 14:43 ` Chris Mason
2001-05-11 15:20 ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2001-05-11 9:42 ` Hans Reiser
2001-05-11 16:04 ` Alan Cox
2001-05-11 10:21 ` Hans Reiser
2001-05-11 17:47 ` Alan Cox
2001-05-11 11:00 ` [reiserfs-dev] " Hans Reiser
2001-05-11 18:50 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2001-05-11 19:07 ` Hans Reiser
2001-05-11 19:17 ` Chris Mason
2001-05-11 19:04 ` Chris Mason
2001-06-29 21:23 ` 2.4.6-pre3 + reiserfs + NFS peculiarities Guennadi Liakhovetski
2001-05-11 19:38 ` reiserfs, xfs, ext2, ext3 Gregory Maxwell
2001-05-11 19:51 ` Alan Cox
2001-05-10 23:37 ` Matthias Andree
2001-05-11 14:56 ` Tony Hoyle
2001-05-11 8:42 ` Hans Reiser
2001-05-11 15:56 ` Matthias Andree
2001-05-11 16:47 ` Tony Hoyle
2001-05-11 16:53 ` Matthias Andree
2001-05-10 14:21 ` Shawn
2001-05-10 14:42 ` Hans Reiser
2001-05-10 21:58 ` Gregory Maxwell
2001-04-21 15:49 Request for comment -- a better attribution system Eric S. Raymond
2001-04-21 16:18 ` Karsten Keil
2001-04-21 16:38 ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2001-04-21 17:04 ` Francois Romieu
2001-04-21 19:42 ` Andi Kleen
2001-04-21 23:45 ` Jes Sorensen
2001-04-22 9:21 ` Olaf Titz
2001-04-21 20:03 ` [kbuild-devel] " Giacomo A. Catenazzi
2001-04-21 19:55 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-04-21 23:25 ` Alan Cox
2001-04-22 10:54 ` Giacomo A. Catenazzi
2001-04-22 12:30 ` mirabilos
2001-04-24 8:38 ` Markus Schaber
2001-04-24 13:51 ` Alan Cox
2001-04-24 14:08 ` Giacomo Catenazzi
2001-04-24 14:35 ` Alan Cox
2001-04-22 2:51 ` Horst von Brand
2001-04-22 10:54 ` Giacomo A. Catenazzi
2001-04-21 20:23 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2001-04-21 20:29 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-04-22 2:56 ` Horst von Brand
2001-04-21 20:34 ` Alexander Viro
2001-04-21 20:46 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-04-21 21:11 ` Francois Romieu
2001-04-21 21:20 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-04-21 22:30 ` Francois Romieu
2001-04-21 22:35 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-04-21 23:29 ` Alan Cox
2001-04-21 23:49 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-04-22 16:02 ` Jes Sorensen
2001-04-22 10:53 ` [kbuild-devel] " Giacomo A. Catenazzi
2001-04-22 12:32 ` [kbuild-devel] Re: Request for comment -- a better attribution Alan Cox
2001-04-22 15:44 ` [kbuild-devel] Re: Request for comment -- a better attribution system Eric S. Raymond
2001-04-25 15:16 ` Pavel Machek
2001-04-21 21:59 ` Mr. James W. Laferriere
2001-04-22 0:33 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2001-04-22 2:23 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-04-22 1:00 ` Jonathan Morton
2001-04-22 1:07 ` Alan Cox
2001-04-22 1:47 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2001-04-22 9:43 ` Ben Ford
2001-04-22 9:33 ` Olaf Titz
2001-04-24 6:28 ` Anuradha Ratnaweera
2001-04-21 23:09 ` Alan Cox
2001-04-21 23:47 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-04-22 0:02 ` Alan Cox
2001-04-22 3:39 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-04-22 12:09 ` Alan Cox
2001-04-22 3:31 ` Horst von Brand
2001-04-22 3:46 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-04-22 15:28 ` [kbuild-devel] " Eric S. Raymond
2001-04-22 15:37 ` Arjan van de Ven
2001-04-22 8:39 ` Russell King
2001-04-22 15:30 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-04-22 10:22 ` Matthew Kirkwood
2001-04-22 12:12 ` Russell King
2001-04-22 13:42 ` Matthew Kirkwood
2001-04-22 14:29 ` Alan Cox
2001-04-22 14:59 ` Russell King
2001-04-22 15:32 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-04-22 15:31 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-04-22 2:28 ` Horst von Brand
2001-04-22 4:12 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-04-22 11:39 ` Francois Romieu
2001-04-22 12:33 ` Alexander Viro
2001-04-22 15:46 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-04-22 16:35 ` Alexander Viro
2001-04-22 16:51 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-04-22 16:52 ` Rik van Riel
2001-04-22 18:00 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-04-22 17:23 ` Alexander Viro
2001-04-22 20:31 ` Olaf Titz
2001-04-22 18:47 ` Alan Cox
2001-04-22 23:22 ` Horst von Brand
2001-04-23 0:05 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-04-23 0:19 ` Rik van Riel
2001-04-22 16:07 ` David Woodhouse
2001-04-22 16:24 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-04-22 16:49 ` Rik van Riel
2001-04-24 11:51 ` Roger Gammans
2001-04-24 12:09 ` esr
2001-04-24 13:14 ` Horst von Brand
2001-04-24 14:52 ` Roger Gammans
2001-04-25 3:50 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-04-25 1:18 ` CML2 Transition experiences jeff millar
2001-04-25 15:04 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-04-16 12:27 Linux 2.4.3-ac7 Alan Cox
2001-04-16 12:56 ` Chris Meadors
2001-04-16 12:57 ` Alan Cox
2001-04-17 10:35 ` Martin Hamilton
2001-04-16 17:27 ` John Cavan
2001-04-16 23:40 ` Alan Cox
2001-04-17 5:39 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2001-04-17 12:11 ` Alan Cox
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