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It's very strange that adding/updating documentation isn't treated as a basic requirement for a patch that adds to or modifies Linux's public interfaces.
by mjw1007 9y ago
It's very strange that adding/updating documentation isn't treated as a basic requirement for a patch that adds to or modifies Linux's public interfaces.
- milcron 9y agoFor the BSDs, incorrect or missing man pages are considered a serious bug.
- dom0 9y agoMan pages aren't even in the kernel tree.
- caf 9y agoFrom Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst: 19) All new userspace interfaces are documented in ``Documentation/ABI/``. See ``Documentation/ABI/README`` for more information. Patches that change userspace interfaces should be CCed to linux-api@vger.kernel.org.