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I have often complained that, even though thousands of developers are paid to work on the Linux kernel, there is not a single person whose job it is to write documentation for the kernel. The problem is wider than that, though: Alejandro Colomar, who has been maintaining the man pages collection for the last four years, can no longer afford to do it for free.

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@corbet I still maintain that we should just have all _system call_ and associated manpages directly in the kernel source tree. It would make so many things easier imho.

Paul Moore

@brauner @corbet Bonus points if the manpages are generated from a comment block that lives right above the syscall definition in the code. Similar to what we do now with the kdoc blocks, but with the info one would expect in a manpage.