Re: kernel support for non-English user messages

[John Bradford]

> > I thought you might be seriously in need of some mental evaluation
> > when you claimed that users "liked looking up error numbers in
> > manuals".
> 
>  Not the looking up part, but that fact that the explanation
> for every single message the software could emit was available.
> 
>  Today it's all HTML documents or PDFs or something, but it's still
> a staggering amount of information.  I have ~300MB of Oracle
> documentation on one desktop, 6 of it server error messages alone.
> Every possible message is explained to some extent, except this one:

[SNIP]

> which is currently pretty much the only explanation available for
> a whole lot of Linux error messages. I can go read the source when e.g.
> the md driver splats its internal status dumps all over the console
> during array rebuild, but that doesn't help much.

/Documentation could be a lot better than it is...  Some of it is very
out of date.

John.