Bug 44807 – User oriented doc for koutput as from bug #32737

• Product: [OLD] Docs-user
• Status: RESOLVED INVALID

[Description Peter Johanson (RETIRED) 2004-03-15 22:18:55 UTC]

Opening this bug to begin the process with a new doc for educating users about the changes in kernel modules and kernels using koutput. The doc is still a bit sparse, but i want to get a few more eyes looking at it and i'll keep fleshing it out.

[Comment 1 Peter Johanson (RETIRED) 2004-03-15 22:21:31 UTC]

Created attachment 27435 [details]
User oriented koutput doc

Okay, here's the doc. The current HTML version can be found at:
http://dev.gentoo.org/~latexer/2.6-koutput-user.html

[Comment 2 Ken Nowack (RETIRED) 2004-03-25 15:26:11 UTC]

A couple things to fix in Section 3. And I'm sorry I didn't provide a diff, but I'm at work and my boss is looking at me.

Original:
"After configuring a kernel to use a different output directory, the changes go largly unnoticed when configuring and isntalling a kernel. A few key files change locations that you should be aware of though. The main files to be concered with are .config, and the generated bzImage after compiling a kernel. Below is a table showing the original and new locations for some key files. We assume the kernel is a 2.6.4 kernel outputting to the Gentoo default of /var/tmp/kernel-output/2.6.4."

Corrected:
"After configuring to use a different output directory, the changes go largly unnoticed when configuring and installing a kernel. There are a few key file location changes that you should be aware of though. The main files to be concered with are .config, and the generated bzImage after compiling a kernel. Below is a table showing the original and new locations for these key files. The table assumes a 2.6.4 kernel outputting to the Gentoo default of /var/tmp/kernel-output/2.6.4."

[Comment 3 Benny Chuang (RETIRED) 2004-03-25 16:11:55 UTC]

Created attachment 28021 [details, diff]
fix coding style, apply ken's fix

[Comment 4 Benny Chuang (RETIRED) 2004-03-25 16:27:02 UTC]

Created attachment 28022 [details, diff]
Final fix to document

Committed into CVS, remain unlinked

[Comment 5 Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED) 2004-03-25 17:03:01 UTC]

Benny, don't forget to add [e-mail] to the Cc-list. It makes it possible for us to keep track of documentation bugreports generally.

[Comment 6 Peter Johanson (RETIRED) 2004-03-26 16:35:33 UTC]

Created attachment 28125 [details, diff]
Update to user doc

Okay, here's a patch against the latest version in CVS. Includes some aesthetic
stuff with config-kernel, and an expansion including a new "Advantages"
section, and further details in the Repurcusssions section.

thanks again!

[Comment 7 Benny Chuang (RETIRED) 2004-03-26 19:21:32 UTC]

committed to cvs

[Comment 8 Peter Johanson (RETIRED) 2004-03-27 23:52:48 UTC]

Created attachment 28193 [details, diff]
Small spelling fixes

One of my users i had read over this pointed out how bad my spelling was in a
few places. hurrah for vimspell fixing a few things for me. (:

attached is a patch against CVS.

[Comment 9 Benny Chuang (RETIRED) 2004-03-28 00:14:33 UTC]

updated

[Comment 10 Benny Chuang (RETIRED) 2004-06-24 05:58:59 UTC]

<latexer> BennyC: the kernel people decided to complicate things. you can mark them LATER or something if you want.

[Comment 11 Marcelo Goes (RETIRED) 2006-01-26 10:23:57 UTC]

Closing this bug as per Josh's request in gentoo-doc's ML.

[Comment 12 Jan Kundrát (RETIRED) 2006-01-26 14:24:50 UTC]

reopening to close properly

[Comment 13 Jan Kundrát (RETIRED) 2006-01-26 14:25:45 UTC]

Files were removed from CVS long time ago.