Re: kernel support for non-English user messages
Denis Vlasenko (vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua)
Mon, 14 Apr 2003 14:40:46 +0300
On 12 April 2003 01:21, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> 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.
I imagine keeping Oracle docs in shape is itself a huge task.
And frankly, it does not always help.
OTOH "I can go read the source" is the ultimate documentation
which we have for zero extra effort.
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vda
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