Re: [Linuxconsole-dev] Which tree and developers

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

Dominik Kubla <dom...@un...>:
> I will most definitely contribute the beginnings of a programmers reference
> manual for the terminal emulation.  And since i intend to document all changes
> in the kernel code, we could start with section 9 again, if we were so inclined.

By "a programmers reference manual for the terminal emulation", do you mean a 
description of the supported escape sequences?
 
> I recall Linus being less appreciative of the idea of using embedded docs
> and automatic tools to generate man pages, but that might have changed since
> it was mentionend the last time...

I believe Alan Cox is pushing some tools for doing this.
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