Re: [Linuxconsole-dev] Which tree and developers

[Dominik K. <dom...@un...>]

On Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 07:54:08PM -0500, James Simmons wrote:
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> Thinking about creating a console directory for now and a diff against
> various kernel versions. Opinions?

Just what i wanted to propose.  Another note regarding coding style:

All _exported_ functions and variables need to have constant name prefix.
I propose the following:

   con_      console device             (already used for this)
   kb_       keyboard driver
   vt_       virtual terminal handling  (already used for this)
   vte_      video terminal emulation

Comments? 

Eric, what format should we use for the docs? Plain text? Nroff? I would
discount TeX and SGML because people can not be expected to have these
tools installed, even so one could use a SGML subset and sed/awk scripts
to convert them to text.  Since man pages are already written in nroff
and nroff is generating decent printer output (and since it's the Unix
standard way of delivering documents anyway), i would propose to use nroff
for the other docs to be included into the kernel as well.  And i recall
you are well versed in nroff anyway... ;-)

So i see the following directory structure for now

   Documentation/console                  The documentation
   drivers/char/console                   The generic console code

Dominik
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