Re: [Linuxconsole-dev] Which tree and developers

[Eric S. R. <es...@th...>]

Dominik Kubla <dom...@un...>:
> 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? 

Good idea.
 
> 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... ;-)

Nroff should be fine for this application.   Anyway, the only documentation
change I was immediately planning was an update to console_codes(4).
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