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Documentation/HOWTO: add cross-references to other documents Add cross references for the documents mentioned at HOWTO and are under the Documentation/ directory, using the ReST notation. It should be noticed that HOWTO also mentions the /README file. We opted to not touch it, for now, as making it build on Sphinx would require it to be moved to a Documentation/foo directory. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-09-19 14:07:56 +03:00
.. _changes:
docs: Apply some basic organization to the process guide Put like documents together, with the essential ones at the top, and split the TOC into sections. Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-10-27 01:34:09 +03:00
Minimal requirements to compile the Kernel
Documentation/Changes: convert it to ReST markup - Fix chapter identation inconsistencies; - Convert table to ReST format; - use the right tag for bullets; - Fix bold emphasis; - mark blocks with :: tags; - use verbatim font for files; - make Sphinx happy Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-09-19 14:07:42 +03:00
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Linux-2.6.12-rc2 Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!
2005-04-17 02:20:36 +04:00
Intro
=====
This document is designed to provide a list of the minimum levels of
Documentation/Changes: add minimal requirements for documentation build As discussed at linux-doc ML, the best is to keep all documents backward compatible with Sphinx version 1.2, as it is the latest version found on some distros like Debian. All books currently support it. Please notice that, while it mentions the eventual need of XeLaTex and texlive to build pdf files, this is not a minimal requirement, as one could just be interested on building html documents. Also, identifying the minimal requirements for texlive packages is not trivial, as each distribution seems to use different criteria on grouping LaTex functionalities. While here, update the current kernel version to 4.x. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-09-19 14:07:43 +03:00
software necessary to run the 4.x kernels.
Linux-2.6.12-rc2 Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!
2005-04-17 02:20:36 +04:00
This document is originally based on my "Changes" file for 2.0.x kernels
and therefore owes credit to the same people as that file (Jared Mauch,
Axel Boldt, Alessandro Sigala, and countless other users all over the
'net).
Current Minimal Requirements
Documentation/Changes: convert it to ReST markup - Fix chapter identation inconsistencies; - Convert table to ReST format; - use the right tag for bullets; - Fix bold emphasis; - mark blocks with :: tags; - use verbatim font for files; - make Sphinx happy Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-09-19 14:07:42 +03:00
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Linux-2.6.12-rc2 Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!
2005-04-17 02:20:36 +04:00
Documentation/Changes: convert it to ReST markup - Fix chapter identation inconsistencies; - Convert table to ReST format; - use the right tag for bullets; - Fix bold emphasis; - mark blocks with :: tags; - use verbatim font for files; - make Sphinx happy Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-09-19 14:07:42 +03:00
Upgrade to at **least** these software revisions before thinking you've
Linux-2.6.12-rc2 Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!
2005-04-17 02:20:36 +04:00
encountered a bug! If you're unsure what version you're currently
running, the suggested command should tell you.
Documentation/Changes: remove some really obsolete text That file harkens back to the days of the big 2.4 -> 2.6 version jump, and was based even then on older versions. Some of it is just obsolete, and Jesper Juhl points out that it talks about kernel versions 2.6 and should be updated to 3.0. Remove some obsolete text, and re-phrase some other to not be 2.6-specific. Reported-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-07-12 03:48:38 +04:00
Again, keep in mind that this list assumes you are already functionally
running a Linux kernel. Also, not all tools are necessary on all
isdn: remove isdn4linux With all isdn4linux hardware drivers gone, this is only a wrapper around CAPI to support old user space. However, from looking at the mailing list, it seems that the last time anyone asked about it was in 2014, when the upgrade from a linux-2.4 installation failed, and mISDN was suggested as a replacement. The largest public ISDN network (Deutsche Telekom) was supposed to be shut down 2018, which must have drastically reduced the number of legacy installations. When we last discussed removing i4l in 2016, Karsten Keil suggested revisiting this in 2018. I guess this is overdue. Link: http://listserv.isdn4linux.de/pipermail/isdn4linux/2014-October/006165.html Link: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/8484861/#17900371 Link: https://listserv.isdn4linux.de/pipermail/isdn4linux/2019-April/thread.html Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
2019-04-18 23:43:36 +03:00
systems; obviously, if you don't have any PC Card hardware, for example,
you probably needn't concern yourself with pcmciautils.
Linux-2.6.12-rc2 Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!
2005-04-17 02:20:36 +04:00
Documentation/Changes: convert it to ReST markup - Fix chapter identation inconsistencies; - Convert table to ReST format; - use the right tag for bullets; - Fix bold emphasis; - mark blocks with :: tags; - use verbatim font for files; - make Sphinx happy Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-09-19 14:07:42 +03:00
====================== =============== ========================================
Program Minimal version Command to check the version
====================== =============== ========================================
Raise the minimum required gcc version to 4.6 Various architectures fail to build properly with older versions of the gcc compiler. An example from Guenter Roeck in thread [1]: > > In file included from ./include/linux/mm.h:17:0, > from ./include/linux/pid_namespace.h:7, > from ./include/linux/ptrace.h:10, > from arch/openrisc/kernel/asm-offsets.c:32: > ./include/linux/mm_types.h:497:16: error: flexible array member in otherwise empty struct > > This is just an example with gcc 4.5.1 for or32. I have seen the problem > with gcc 4.4 (for unicore32) as well. So update the minimum required version of gcc to 4.6. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20180814170904.GA12768@roeck-us.net/ Miscellanea: - Update Documentation/process/changes.rst - Remove and consolidate version test blocks in compiler-gcc.h for versions lower than 4.6 Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2018-08-20 23:15:26 +03:00
GNU C 4.6 gcc --version
docs: bump minimal GNU Make version to 3.81 Since 2014, you can't successfully build kernels with GNU Make version 3.80. Example errors: $ git describe v4.11 $ make --version | head -1 GNU Make 3.80 $ make defconfig HOSTCC scripts/basic/fixdep scripts/Makefile.host:135: *** missing separator. Stop. make: *** [defconfig] Error 2 $ make ARCH=arm64 help arch/arm64/Makefile:43: *** unterminated call to function `warning': missing `)'. Stop. $ make help >/dev/null ./Documentation/Makefile.sphinx:25: Extraneous text after `else' directive ./Documentation/Makefile.sphinx:31: *** only one `else' per conditional. Stop. make: *** [help] Error 2 The first breakage was introduced by commit c8589d1e9e01 ("kbuild: handle multi-objs dependency appropriately"). Since then (i.e. v3.18), GNU Make 3.80 has not been able to compile the kernel, but nobody has ever complained aboutt (or noticed) it. Even GNU Make 3.81 is more than 10 years old. It would not hurt to match the documentation with reality instead of fixing makefiles. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-05-06 18:39:17 +03:00
GNU make 3.81 make --version
kbuild: Raise the minimum required binutils version to 2.21 It helps to use some new instructions directly in assembly code. Suggested-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Chang S. Bae <chang.seok.bae@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Ravi Shankar <ravi.v.shankar@intel.com> Cc: Linux Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1557309753-24073-5-git-send-email-chang.seok.bae@intel.com
2019-05-08 13:02:19 +03:00
binutils 2.21 ld -v
kbuild: prepare to remove C files pre-generated by flex and bison In Linux build system convention, pre-generated files are version- controlled with a "_shipped" suffix. During the kernel building, they are simply shipped (copied) removing the suffix. This approach can reduce external tool dependency for the kernel build, but it is tedious to manually regenerate such artifacts from developers' point of view. (We need to do "make REGENERATE_PARSERS=1" every time we touch real source files such as *.l, *.y) Some months ago, I sent out RFC patches to run flex, bison, and gperf during the build. In the review and test, Linus noticed gperf-3.1 had changed the lookup function prototype. Then, the use of gperf in kernel was entirely removed by commit bb3290d91695 ("Remove gperf usage from toolchain"). This time, I tested several versions of flex and bison, and I was not hit by any compatibility issue except a flaw in flex-2.6.3; if you generate lexer for dtc and genksyms with flex-2.6.3, you will see "yywrap redefined" warning. This was not intentional, but a bug, fixed by flex-2.6.4. Otherwise, both flex and bison look fairly stable for a long time. This commit prepares some build rules to remove the _shipped files. Also, document minimal requirement for flex and bison. Rationale for the minimal version: The -Wmissing-prototypes option of GCC warns "no previous prototype" for lexers generated by flex-2.5.34 or older, so I chose 2.5.35 as the required version for flex. Flex-2.5.35 was released in 2008. Bison looks more stable. I did not see any problem with bison-2.0, released in 2004. I did not test bison-1.x, but bison-2.0 should be old enough. Tested flex versions: 2.5.35 2.5.36 2.5.37 2.5.39 2.6.0 2.6.1 2.6.2 2.6.3 (*) 2.6.4 (*) flex-2.6.3 causes "yywrap redefined" warning Tested bison versions: 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.4.1 2.5.1 2.6 2.6.1 2.6.2 2.6.3 2.6.4 2.6.5 2.7 2.7.1 3.0 3.0.1 3.0.2 3.0.3 3.0.4 Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
2017-12-09 19:02:29 +03:00
flex 2.5.35 flex --version
bison 2.0 bison --version
Documentation/Changes: convert it to ReST markup - Fix chapter identation inconsistencies; - Convert table to ReST format; - use the right tag for bullets; - Fix bold emphasis; - mark blocks with :: tags; - use verbatim font for files; - make Sphinx happy Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-09-19 14:07:42 +03:00
util-linux 2.10o fdformat --version
kbuild: verify that $DEPMOD is installed Verify that 'depmod' ($DEPMOD) is installed. This is a partial revert of commit 620c231c7a7f ("kbuild: do not check for ancient modutils tools"). Also update Documentation/process/changes.rst to refer to kmod instead of module-init-tools. Fixes kernel bugzilla #198965: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198965 Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Cc: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi> Cc: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.de.marchi@gmail.com> Cc: Michal Marek <michal.lkml@markovi.net> Cc: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org> Cc: Chih-Wei Huang <cwhuang@linux.org.tw> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # any kernel since 2012 Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
2018-07-02 05:46:06 +03:00
kmod 13 depmod -V
Documentation/Changes: convert it to ReST markup - Fix chapter identation inconsistencies; - Convert table to ReST format; - use the right tag for bullets; - Fix bold emphasis; - mark blocks with :: tags; - use verbatim font for files; - make Sphinx happy Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-09-19 14:07:42 +03:00
e2fsprogs 1.41.4 e2fsck -V
jfsutils 1.1.3 fsck.jfs -V
reiserfsprogs 3.6.3 reiserfsck -V
xfsprogs 2.6.0 xfs_db -V
squashfs-tools 4.0 mksquashfs -version
btrfs-progs 0.18 btrfsck
pcmciautils 004 pccardctl -V
quota-tools 3.09 quota -V
PPP 2.4.0 pppd --version
nfs-utils 1.0.5 showmount --version
procps 3.2.0 ps --version
oprofile 0.9 oprofiled --version
udev 081 udevd --version
grub 0.93 grub --version || grub-install --version
mcelog 0.6 mcelog --version
iptables 1.4.2 iptables -V
openssl & libcrypto 1.0.0 openssl version
bc 1.06.95 bc --version
changes.rst: Update Sphinx minimal requirements The kfigure module doesn't work with Sphinx version 1.2. So, update the minimal requirements accordingly. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2017-07-14 19:41:16 +03:00
Sphinx\ [#f1]_ 1.3 sphinx-build --version
Documentation/Changes: convert it to ReST markup - Fix chapter identation inconsistencies; - Convert table to ReST format; - use the right tag for bullets; - Fix bold emphasis; - mark blocks with :: tags; - use verbatim font for files; - make Sphinx happy Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-09-19 14:07:42 +03:00
====================== =============== ========================================
netfilter: xtables: document minimal required version For both .33 and .32-stable. Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2009-12-14 16:52:10 +03:00
Documentation/Changes: add minimal requirements for documentation build As discussed at linux-doc ML, the best is to keep all documents backward compatible with Sphinx version 1.2, as it is the latest version found on some distros like Debian. All books currently support it. Please notice that, while it mentions the eventual need of XeLaTex and texlive to build pdf files, this is not a minimal requirement, as one could just be interested on building html documents. Also, identifying the minimal requirements for texlive packages is not trivial, as each distribution seems to use different criteria on grouping LaTex functionalities. While here, update the current kernel version to 4.x. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-09-19 14:07:43 +03:00
.. [#f1] Sphinx is needed only to build the Kernel documentation
Linux-2.6.12-rc2 Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!
2005-04-17 02:20:36 +04:00
Kernel compilation
Documentation/Changes: convert it to ReST markup - Fix chapter identation inconsistencies; - Convert table to ReST format; - use the right tag for bullets; - Fix bold emphasis; - mark blocks with :: tags; - use verbatim font for files; - make Sphinx happy Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-09-19 14:07:42 +03:00
******************
Linux-2.6.12-rc2 Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!
2005-04-17 02:20:36 +04:00
GCC
---
The gcc version requirements may vary depending on the type of CPU in your
[PATCH] remove gcc-2 checks Remove various things which were checking for gcc-1.x and gcc-2.x compilers. From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Some documentation updates and removes some code paths for gcc < 3.2. Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08 12:04:09 +03:00
computer.
Linux-2.6.12-rc2 Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!
2005-04-17 02:20:36 +04:00
Make
----
docs: complete bumping minimal GNU Make version to 3.81 Commit 37d69ee30808 ("docs: bump minimal GNU Make version to 3.81") changes one entry of GNU make version in the changes.rst, there's still one more entry saying that one need version 3.80. Fix that. Signed-off-by: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-05-07 01:39:25 +03:00
You will need GNU make 3.81 or later to build the kernel.
Linux-2.6.12-rc2 Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!
2005-04-17 02:20:36 +04:00
Binutils
--------
kbuild: Raise the minimum required binutils version to 2.21 It helps to use some new instructions directly in assembly code. Suggested-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Chang S. Bae <chang.seok.bae@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Ravi Shankar <ravi.v.shankar@intel.com> Cc: Linux Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1557309753-24073-5-git-send-email-chang.seok.bae@intel.com
2019-05-08 13:02:19 +03:00
Binutils 2.21 or newer is needed to build the kernel.
Linux-2.6.12-rc2 Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!
2005-04-17 02:20:36 +04:00
kconfig: check for pkg-config on make {menu,n,g,x}config Each of 'make {menu,n,g,x}config' uses (needs) pkg-config to make sure that other required files are present and to determine build flags settings, but none of these check that pkg-config itself is present. Add a check for all 4 of these targets and update Documentation/process/changes.rst to mention 'pkg-config'. Fixes kernel bugzilla #77511: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=77511 Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Cc: Bjørn Forsman <bjorn.forsman@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
2018-06-29 02:39:50 +03:00
pkg-config
----------
The build system, as of 4.18, requires pkg-config to check for installed
kconfig tools and to determine flags settings for use in
kconfig: do not require pkg-config on make {menu,n}config Meelis Roos reported a {menu,n}config regression: "I have libncurses devel package installed in the default system location (as do 99%+ on actual developers probably) and in this case, pkg-config is useless. pkg-config is needed only when libraries and headers are installed in non-default locations but it is bad to require installation of pkg-config on all the machines where make menuconfig would be possibly run." For {menu,n}config, do not use pkg-config if it is not installed. For {g,x}config, keep checking pkg-config since we really rely on it for finding the installation paths of the required packages. Fixes: 4ab3b80159d4 ("kconfig: check for pkg-config on make {menu,n,g,x}config") Reported-by: Meelis Roos <mroos@linux.ee> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> Tested-by: Meelis Roos <mroos@linux.ee> Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
2018-08-31 12:34:55 +03:00
'make {g,x}config'. Previously pkg-config was being used but not
kconfig: check for pkg-config on make {menu,n,g,x}config Each of 'make {menu,n,g,x}config' uses (needs) pkg-config to make sure that other required files are present and to determine build flags settings, but none of these check that pkg-config itself is present. Add a check for all 4 of these targets and update Documentation/process/changes.rst to mention 'pkg-config'. Fixes kernel bugzilla #77511: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=77511 Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Cc: Bjørn Forsman <bjorn.forsman@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
2018-06-29 02:39:50 +03:00
verified or documented.
kbuild: prepare to remove C files pre-generated by flex and bison In Linux build system convention, pre-generated files are version- controlled with a "_shipped" suffix. During the kernel building, they are simply shipped (copied) removing the suffix. This approach can reduce external tool dependency for the kernel build, but it is tedious to manually regenerate such artifacts from developers' point of view. (We need to do "make REGENERATE_PARSERS=1" every time we touch real source files such as *.l, *.y) Some months ago, I sent out RFC patches to run flex, bison, and gperf during the build. In the review and test, Linus noticed gperf-3.1 had changed the lookup function prototype. Then, the use of gperf in kernel was entirely removed by commit bb3290d91695 ("Remove gperf usage from toolchain"). This time, I tested several versions of flex and bison, and I was not hit by any compatibility issue except a flaw in flex-2.6.3; if you generate lexer for dtc and genksyms with flex-2.6.3, you will see "yywrap redefined" warning. This was not intentional, but a bug, fixed by flex-2.6.4. Otherwise, both flex and bison look fairly stable for a long time. This commit prepares some build rules to remove the _shipped files. Also, document minimal requirement for flex and bison. Rationale for the minimal version: The -Wmissing-prototypes option of GCC warns "no previous prototype" for lexers generated by flex-2.5.34 or older, so I chose 2.5.35 as the required version for flex. Flex-2.5.35 was released in 2008. Bison looks more stable. I did not see any problem with bison-2.0, released in 2004. I did not test bison-1.x, but bison-2.0 should be old enough. Tested flex versions: 2.5.35 2.5.36 2.5.37 2.5.39 2.6.0 2.6.1 2.6.2 2.6.3 (*) 2.6.4 (*) flex-2.6.3 causes "yywrap redefined" warning Tested bison versions: 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.4.1 2.5.1 2.6 2.6.1 2.6.2 2.6.3 2.6.4 2.6.5 2.7 2.7.1 3.0 3.0.1 3.0.2 3.0.3 3.0.4 Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
2017-12-09 19:02:29 +03:00
Flex
----
Since Linux 4.16, the build system generates lexical analyzers
during build. This requires flex 2.5.35 or later.
Bison
-----
Since Linux 4.16, the build system generates parsers
during build. This requires bison 2.0 or later.
Documentation/Changes: perl is needed to build the kernel Perl is used on the kernel Makefile to generate documentation, firmwares in c source form, sources, graphs, and some headers and this fact is undocumented. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: 80-columns, please] Signed-off-by: Jose Luis Perez Diez <jluis@escomposlinux.org> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Perl
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You will need perl 5 and the following modules: ``Getopt::Long``,
``Getopt::Std``, ``File::Basename``, and ``File::Find`` to build the kernel.
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doc: Note need of bc in the kernel build from 3.10 onwards HPA did the world a favour and reduced the number of perl scripts in the universe. However we do now need bc Resolves-bug: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60575 Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2014-05-19 17:02:17 +04:00
BC
--
You will need bc to build kernels 3.10 and higher
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2009-06-18 03:26:30 +04:00
Documentation/Changes: Now need OpenSSL devel packages for module signing The module signing script (sign-file) used to be a wrapper around the openssl program. It has now been replaced by a C program that uses the crypto library from the OpenSSL package meaning that the OpenSSL devel packages are necessary to provide the devel library link and the header files. This would be openssl-devel on Fedora and libssl-dev on Debian. Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: James Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com>
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OpenSSL
-------
Module signing and external certificate handling use the OpenSSL program and
crypto library to do key creation and signature generation.
You will need openssl to build kernels 3.7 and higher if module signing is
enabled. You will also need openssl development packages to build kernels 4.3
and higher.
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System utilities
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Architectural changes
---------------------
DevFS has been obsoleted in favour of udev
(http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/)
32-bit UID support is now in place. Have fun!
Linux documentation for functions is transitioning to inline
documentation via specially-formatted comments near their
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definitions in the source. These comments can be combined with ReST
files the Documentation/ directory to make enriched documentation, which can
then be converted to PostScript, HTML, LaTex, ePUB and PDF files.
In order to convert from ReST format to a format of your choice, you'll need
Sphinx.
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Util-linux
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New versions of util-linux provide ``fdisk`` support for larger disks,
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support new options to mount, recognize more supported partition
types, have a fdformat which works with 2.4 kernels, and similar goodies.
You'll probably want to upgrade.
Ksymoops
--------
[PATCH] ksymoops related docs update Update ksymoops related documentation to reflect current 2.6 reality. Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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If the unthinkable happens and your kernel oopses, you may need the
ksymoops tool to decode it, but in most cases you don't.
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It is generally preferred to build the kernel with ``CONFIG_KALLSYMS`` so
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that it produces readable dumps that can be used as-is (this also
produces better output than ksymoops). If for some reason your kernel
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is not build with ``CONFIG_KALLSYMS`` and you have no way to rebuild and
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reproduce the Oops with that option, then you can still decode that Oops
with ksymoops.
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Mkinitrd
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These changes to the ``/lib/modules`` file tree layout also require that
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mkinitrd be upgraded.
E2fsprogs
---------
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The latest version of ``e2fsprogs`` fixes several bugs in fsck and
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debugfs. Obviously, it's a good idea to upgrade.
JFSutils
--------
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The ``jfsutils`` package contains the utilities for the file system.
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The following utilities are available:
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- ``fsck.jfs`` - initiate replay of the transaction log, and check
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and repair a JFS formatted partition.
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- ``mkfs.jfs`` - create a JFS formatted partition.
- other file system utilities are also available in this package.
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Reiserfsprogs
-------------
The reiserfsprogs package should be used for reiserfs-3.6.x
(Linux kernels 2.4.x). It is a combined package and contains working
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versions of ``mkreiserfs``, ``resize_reiserfs``, ``debugreiserfs`` and
``reiserfsck``. These utils work on both i386 and alpha platforms.
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Xfsprogs
--------
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The latest version of ``xfsprogs`` contains ``mkfs.xfs``, ``xfs_db``, and the
``xfs_repair`` utilities, among others, for the XFS filesystem. It is
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architecture independent and any version from 2.0.0 onward should
work correctly with this version of the XFS kernel code (2.6.0 or
later is recommended, due to some significant improvements).
[PATCH] pcmcia: add some Documentation Add some information useful for PCMCIA device driver authors to Documentation/pcmcia/, and reference it in dmesg in case of hash mismatches. Also add a reference to pcmciautils to Documentation/Changes. With recent changes, you don't need to concern yourself with pcmcia-cs even if you have PCMCIA hardware, so the example above the list needed to be adapted as well. Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowksi.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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PCMCIAutils
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PCMCIAutils replaces ``pcmcia-cs``. It properly sets up
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PCMCIA sockets at system startup and loads the appropriate modules
for 16-bit PCMCIA devices if the kernel is modularized and the hotplug
subsystem is used.
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Quota-tools
-----------
Support for 32 bit uid's and gid's is required if you want to use
the newer version 2 quota format. Quota-tools version 3.07 and
newer has this support. Use the recommended version or newer
from the table above.
Intel IA32 microcode
--------------------
A driver has been added to allow updating of Intel IA32 microcode,
[PATCH] devfs: Last little devfs cleanups throughout the kernel tree. Just removes a few unused #defines and fixes some comments due to devfs now being gone. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-06-21 08:15:16 +04:00
accessible as a normal (misc) character device. If you are not using
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udev you may need to::
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mkdir /dev/cpu
mknod /dev/cpu/microcode c 10 184
chmod 0644 /dev/cpu/microcode
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as root before you can use this. You'll probably also want to
get the user-space microcode_ctl utility to use with this.
udev
----
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``udev`` is a userspace application for populating ``/dev`` dynamically with
only entries for devices actually present. ``udev`` replaces the basic
Fix typos in doc and comments Changes persistant -> persistent. www.dictionary.com does not know persistant (with an A), but should it be one of those things you can spell in more than one correct way, let me know. Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
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functionality of devfs, while allowing persistent device naming for
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devices.
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[PATCH] fuse: add required version info Add information about required version of the userspace library/utilities to Documentation/Changes. Also add pointer to this and to FUSE documentation from Kconfig. Thanks to Anton Altaparmakov for the reminder. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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FUSE
----
Needs libfuse 2.4.0 or later. Absolute minimum is 2.3.0 but mount
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options ``direct_io`` and ``kernel_cache`` won't work.
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2005-09-28 08:45:20 +04:00
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Networking
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**********
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General changes
---------------
If you have advanced network configuration needs, you should probably
consider using the network tools from ip-route2.
Packet Filter / NAT
-------------------
The packet filtering and NAT code uses the same tools like the previous 2.4.x
kernel series (iptables). It still includes backwards-compatibility modules
for 2.2.x-style ipchains and 2.0.x-style ipfwadm.
PPP
---
The PPP driver has been restructured to support multilink and to
enable it to operate over diverse media layers. If you use PPP,
upgrade pppd to at least 2.4.0.
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If you are not using udev, you must have the device file /dev/ppp
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which can be made by::
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mknod /dev/ppp c 108 0
Linux-2.6.12-rc2 Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!
2005-04-17 02:20:36 +04:00
as root.
NFS-utils
---------
Documentation/Changes: remove some really obsolete text That file harkens back to the days of the big 2.4 -> 2.6 version jump, and was based even then on older versions. Some of it is just obsolete, and Jesper Juhl points out that it talks about kernel versions 2.6 and should be updated to 3.0. Remove some obsolete text, and re-phrase some other to not be 2.6-specific. Reported-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-07-12 03:48:38 +04:00
In ancient (2.4 and earlier) kernels, the nfs server needed to know
about any client that expected to be able to access files via NFS. This
Documentation/Changes: convert it to ReST markup - Fix chapter identation inconsistencies; - Convert table to ReST format; - use the right tag for bullets; - Fix bold emphasis; - mark blocks with :: tags; - use verbatim font for files; - make Sphinx happy Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-09-19 14:07:42 +03:00
information would be given to the kernel by ``mountd`` when the client
mounted the filesystem, or by ``exportfs`` at system startup. exportfs
would take information about active clients from ``/var/lib/nfs/rmtab``.
Linux-2.6.12-rc2 Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!
2005-04-17 02:20:36 +04:00
This approach is quite fragile as it depends on rmtab being correct
which is not always easy, particularly when trying to implement
Documentation/Changes: convert it to ReST markup - Fix chapter identation inconsistencies; - Convert table to ReST format; - use the right tag for bullets; - Fix bold emphasis; - mark blocks with :: tags; - use verbatim font for files; - make Sphinx happy Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-09-19 14:07:42 +03:00
fail-over. Even when the system is working well, ``rmtab`` suffers from
Linux-2.6.12-rc2 Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!
2005-04-17 02:20:36 +04:00
getting lots of old entries that never get removed.
Documentation/Changes: remove some really obsolete text That file harkens back to the days of the big 2.4 -> 2.6 version jump, and was based even then on older versions. Some of it is just obsolete, and Jesper Juhl points out that it talks about kernel versions 2.6 and should be updated to 3.0. Remove some obsolete text, and re-phrase some other to not be 2.6-specific. Reported-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-07-12 03:48:38 +04:00
With modern kernels we have the option of having the kernel tell mountd
when it gets a request from an unknown host, and mountd can give
appropriate export information to the kernel. This removes the
Documentation/Changes: convert it to ReST markup - Fix chapter identation inconsistencies; - Convert table to ReST format; - use the right tag for bullets; - Fix bold emphasis; - mark blocks with :: tags; - use verbatim font for files; - make Sphinx happy Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-09-19 14:07:42 +03:00
dependency on ``rmtab`` and means that the kernel only needs to know about
Documentation/Changes: remove some really obsolete text That file harkens back to the days of the big 2.4 -> 2.6 version jump, and was based even then on older versions. Some of it is just obsolete, and Jesper Juhl points out that it talks about kernel versions 2.6 and should be updated to 3.0. Remove some obsolete text, and re-phrase some other to not be 2.6-specific. Reported-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-07-12 03:48:38 +04:00
currently active clients.
Linux-2.6.12-rc2 Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!
2005-04-17 02:20:36 +04:00
docs: Clean up bare :: lines Mauro's patch set introduced some bare :: lines; these can be represented by a double colon at the end of the preceding text line. The result looks a little less weird and is less verbose. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-09-21 03:46:36 +03:00
To enable this new functionality, you need to::
Documentation/Changes: convert it to ReST markup - Fix chapter identation inconsistencies; - Convert table to ReST format; - use the right tag for bullets; - Fix bold emphasis; - mark blocks with :: tags; - use verbatim font for files; - make Sphinx happy Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-09-19 14:07:42 +03:00
Documentaion: update Documentation/Changes with minimum versions Based on conversations with greg kh (and noticing a simple typo), these are the actual minimal versions for 2.6.18. Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-09-11 20:39:19 +04:00
mount -t nfsd nfsd /proc/fs/nfsd
Linux-2.6.12-rc2 Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!
2005-04-17 02:20:36 +04:00
before running exportfs or mountd. It is recommended that all NFS
services be protected from the internet-at-large by a firewall where
that is possible.
x86, mce: document new 32bit mcelog requirement in Documentation/Changes Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-04-29 01:37:02 +04:00
mcelog
------
Documentation/Changes: clean up mcelog paragraph The paragraph on mcelog currently describes kernel v2.6.31. In that kernel the mce code (for i386, that is) was in transition. Ever since v2.6.32 the situation is much simpler (eg, mcelog is now needed to process events on almost all x86 machines, i386 and x86-64). Since this "document is designed to provide a list of the minimum levels of software necessary to run the 3.0 kernels" let's just describe that situation. Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl> Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-07-12 20:54:52 +04:00
On x86 kernels the mcelog utility is needed to process and log machine check
Documentation/Changes: convert it to ReST markup - Fix chapter identation inconsistencies; - Convert table to ReST format; - use the right tag for bullets; - Fix bold emphasis; - mark blocks with :: tags; - use verbatim font for files; - make Sphinx happy Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-09-19 14:07:42 +03:00
events when ``CONFIG_X86_MCE`` is enabled. Machine check events are errors
reported by the CPU. Processing them is strongly encouraged.
x86, mce: document new 32bit mcelog requirement in Documentation/Changes Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-04-29 01:37:02 +04:00
Documentation/Changes: add minimal requirements for documentation build As discussed at linux-doc ML, the best is to keep all documents backward compatible with Sphinx version 1.2, as it is the latest version found on some distros like Debian. All books currently support it. Please notice that, while it mentions the eventual need of XeLaTex and texlive to build pdf files, this is not a minimal requirement, as one could just be interested on building html documents. Also, identifying the minimal requirements for texlive packages is not trivial, as each distribution seems to use different criteria on grouping LaTex functionalities. While here, update the current kernel version to 4.x. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-09-19 14:07:43 +03:00
Kernel documentation
********************
Sphinx
------
doc:process: add links where missing Some documents are refering to others without links. With this patch I add those missing links. This patch affects only documents under process/ and labels where necessary. Signed-off-by: Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@vaga.pv.it> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-11-21 03:35:19 +03:00
Please see :ref:`sphinx_install` in :ref:`Documentation/doc-guide/sphinx.rst <sphinxdoc>`
docs-rst: move Sphinx install instructions to sphinx.rst The toolchain used by Sphinx is somewhat complex, and installing it should be part of the doc-guide. Move it out of changes.rst. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2017-07-14 19:41:17 +03:00
for details about Sphinx requirements.
Documentation/Changes: add minimal requirements for documentation build As discussed at linux-doc ML, the best is to keep all documents backward compatible with Sphinx version 1.2, as it is the latest version found on some distros like Debian. All books currently support it. Please notice that, while it mentions the eventual need of XeLaTex and texlive to build pdf files, this is not a minimal requirement, as one could just be interested on building html documents. Also, identifying the minimal requirements for texlive packages is not trivial, as each distribution seems to use different criteria on grouping LaTex functionalities. While here, update the current kernel version to 4.x. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-09-19 14:07:43 +03:00
Linux-2.6.12-rc2 Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!
2005-04-17 02:20:36 +04:00
Getting updated software
========================
Kernel compilation
******************
[PATCH] remove gcc-2 checks Remove various things which were checking for gcc-1.x and gcc-2.x compilers. From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Some documentation updates and removes some code paths for gcc < 3.2. Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08 12:04:09 +03:00
gcc
---
Documentation/Changes: convert it to ReST markup - Fix chapter identation inconsistencies; - Convert table to ReST format; - use the right tag for bullets; - Fix bold emphasis; - mark blocks with :: tags; - use verbatim font for files; - make Sphinx happy Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-09-19 14:07:42 +03:00
- <ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gcc/>
Linux-2.6.12-rc2 Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!
2005-04-17 02:20:36 +04:00
Make
----
Documentation/Changes: convert it to ReST markup - Fix chapter identation inconsistencies; - Convert table to ReST format; - use the right tag for bullets; - Fix bold emphasis; - mark blocks with :: tags; - use verbatim font for files; - make Sphinx happy Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-09-19 14:07:42 +03:00
- <ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/make/>
Linux-2.6.12-rc2 Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!
2005-04-17 02:20:36 +04:00
Binutils
--------
Documentation/Changes: convert it to ReST markup - Fix chapter identation inconsistencies; - Convert table to ReST format; - use the right tag for bullets; - Fix bold emphasis; - mark blocks with :: tags; - use verbatim font for files; - make Sphinx happy Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-09-19 14:07:42 +03:00
Documentation: Fix dead URLs to ftp.kernel.org As ftp.kernel.org is closed [0], this commit fixes dead URLs in documents to use www.kernel.org instead. [0] https://www.kernel.org/shutting-down-ftp-services.html Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj38.park@gmail.com> Acked-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2017-03-27 16:05:34 +03:00
- <https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/devel/binutils/>
Linux-2.6.12-rc2 Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!
2005-04-17 02:20:36 +04:00
kbuild: prepare to remove C files pre-generated by flex and bison In Linux build system convention, pre-generated files are version- controlled with a "_shipped" suffix. During the kernel building, they are simply shipped (copied) removing the suffix. This approach can reduce external tool dependency for the kernel build, but it is tedious to manually regenerate such artifacts from developers' point of view. (We need to do "make REGENERATE_PARSERS=1" every time we touch real source files such as *.l, *.y) Some months ago, I sent out RFC patches to run flex, bison, and gperf during the build. In the review and test, Linus noticed gperf-3.1 had changed the lookup function prototype. Then, the use of gperf in kernel was entirely removed by commit bb3290d91695 ("Remove gperf usage from toolchain"). This time, I tested several versions of flex and bison, and I was not hit by any compatibility issue except a flaw in flex-2.6.3; if you generate lexer for dtc and genksyms with flex-2.6.3, you will see "yywrap redefined" warning. This was not intentional, but a bug, fixed by flex-2.6.4. Otherwise, both flex and bison look fairly stable for a long time. This commit prepares some build rules to remove the _shipped files. Also, document minimal requirement for flex and bison. Rationale for the minimal version: The -Wmissing-prototypes option of GCC warns "no previous prototype" for lexers generated by flex-2.5.34 or older, so I chose 2.5.35 as the required version for flex. Flex-2.5.35 was released in 2008. Bison looks more stable. I did not see any problem with bison-2.0, released in 2004. I did not test bison-1.x, but bison-2.0 should be old enough. Tested flex versions: 2.5.35 2.5.36 2.5.37 2.5.39 2.6.0 2.6.1 2.6.2 2.6.3 (*) 2.6.4 (*) flex-2.6.3 causes "yywrap redefined" warning Tested bison versions: 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.4.1 2.5.1 2.6 2.6.1 2.6.2 2.6.3 2.6.4 2.6.5 2.7 2.7.1 3.0 3.0.1 3.0.2 3.0.3 3.0.4 Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
2017-12-09 19:02:29 +03:00
Flex
----
- <https://github.com/westes/flex/releases>
Bison
-----
- <ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/bison/>
Documentation/Changes: Now need OpenSSL devel packages for module signing The module signing script (sign-file) used to be a wrapper around the openssl program. It has now been replaced by a C program that uses the crypto library from the OpenSSL package meaning that the OpenSSL devel packages are necessary to provide the devel library link and the header files. This would be openssl-devel on Fedora and libssl-dev on Debian. Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: James Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com>
2015-08-27 13:13:36 +03:00
OpenSSL
-------
Documentation/Changes: convert it to ReST markup - Fix chapter identation inconsistencies; - Convert table to ReST format; - use the right tag for bullets; - Fix bold emphasis; - mark blocks with :: tags; - use verbatim font for files; - make Sphinx happy Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-09-19 14:07:42 +03:00
- <https://www.openssl.org/>
Documentation/Changes: Now need OpenSSL devel packages for module signing The module signing script (sign-file) used to be a wrapper around the openssl program. It has now been replaced by a C program that uses the crypto library from the OpenSSL package meaning that the OpenSSL devel packages are necessary to provide the devel library link and the header files. This would be openssl-devel on Fedora and libssl-dev on Debian. Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: James Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com>
2015-08-27 13:13:36 +03:00
Linux-2.6.12-rc2 Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!
2005-04-17 02:20:36 +04:00
System utilities
****************
Util-linux
----------
Documentation/Changes: convert it to ReST markup - Fix chapter identation inconsistencies; - Convert table to ReST format; - use the right tag for bullets; - Fix bold emphasis; - mark blocks with :: tags; - use verbatim font for files; - make Sphinx happy Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-09-19 14:07:42 +03:00
Documentation: Fix dead URLs to ftp.kernel.org As ftp.kernel.org is closed [0], this commit fixes dead URLs in documents to use www.kernel.org instead. [0] https://www.kernel.org/shutting-down-ftp-services.html Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj38.park@gmail.com> Acked-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2017-03-27 16:05:34 +03:00
- <https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/>
Linux-2.6.12-rc2 Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!
2005-04-17 02:20:36 +04:00
kbuild: verify that $DEPMOD is installed Verify that 'depmod' ($DEPMOD) is installed. This is a partial revert of commit 620c231c7a7f ("kbuild: do not check for ancient modutils tools"). Also update Documentation/process/changes.rst to refer to kmod instead of module-init-tools. Fixes kernel bugzilla #198965: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198965 Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Cc: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi> Cc: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.de.marchi@gmail.com> Cc: Michal Marek <michal.lkml@markovi.net> Cc: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org> Cc: Chih-Wei Huang <cwhuang@linux.org.tw> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # any kernel since 2012 Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
2018-07-02 05:46:06 +03:00
Kmod
----
- <https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/kmod/>
- <https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/kernel/kmod/kmod.git>
Linux-2.6.12-rc2 Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!
2005-04-17 02:20:36 +04:00
Ksymoops
--------
Documentation/Changes: convert it to ReST markup - Fix chapter identation inconsistencies; - Convert table to ReST format; - use the right tag for bullets; - Fix bold emphasis; - mark blocks with :: tags; - use verbatim font for files; - make Sphinx happy Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-09-19 14:07:42 +03:00
Documentation: Fix dead URLs to ftp.kernel.org As ftp.kernel.org is closed [0], this commit fixes dead URLs in documents to use www.kernel.org instead. [0] https://www.kernel.org/shutting-down-ftp-services.html Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj38.park@gmail.com> Acked-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2017-03-27 16:05:34 +03:00
- <https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/ksymoops/v2.4/>
Linux-2.6.12-rc2 Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!
2005-04-17 02:20:36 +04:00
Mkinitrd
--------
Documentation/Changes: convert it to ReST markup - Fix chapter identation inconsistencies; - Convert table to ReST format; - use the right tag for bullets; - Fix bold emphasis; - mark blocks with :: tags; - use verbatim font for files; - make Sphinx happy Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-09-19 14:07:42 +03:00
- <https://code.launchpad.net/initrd-tools/main>
Linux-2.6.12-rc2 Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!
2005-04-17 02:20:36 +04:00
E2fsprogs
---------
Documentation/Changes: convert it to ReST markup - Fix chapter identation inconsistencies; - Convert table to ReST format; - use the right tag for bullets; - Fix bold emphasis; - mark blocks with :: tags; - use verbatim font for files; - make Sphinx happy Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-09-19 14:07:42 +03:00
- <http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/e2fsprogs/e2fsprogs-1.29.tar.gz>
Linux-2.6.12-rc2 Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!
2005-04-17 02:20:36 +04:00
JFSutils
--------
Documentation/Changes: convert it to ReST markup - Fix chapter identation inconsistencies; - Convert table to ReST format; - use the right tag for bullets; - Fix bold emphasis; - mark blocks with :: tags; - use verbatim font for files; - make Sphinx happy Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-09-19 14:07:42 +03:00
- <http://jfs.sourceforge.net/>
Linux-2.6.12-rc2 Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!
2005-04-17 02:20:36 +04:00
Reiserfsprogs
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Documentation/Changes: convert it to ReST markup - Fix chapter identation inconsistencies; - Convert table to ReST format; - use the right tag for bullets; - Fix bold emphasis; - mark blocks with :: tags; - use verbatim font for files; - make Sphinx happy Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-09-19 14:07:42 +03:00
- <http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/fs/reiserfs/>
Linux-2.6.12-rc2 Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!
2005-04-17 02:20:36 +04:00
Xfsprogs
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Documentation/Changes: convert it to ReST markup - Fix chapter identation inconsistencies; - Convert table to ReST format; - use the right tag for bullets; - Fix bold emphasis; - mark blocks with :: tags; - use verbatim font for files; - make Sphinx happy Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-09-19 14:07:42 +03:00
- <ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/>
Linux-2.6.12-rc2 Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!
2005-04-17 02:20:36 +04:00
[PATCH] pcmcia: add some Documentation Add some information useful for PCMCIA device driver authors to Documentation/pcmcia/, and reference it in dmesg in case of hash mismatches. Also add a reference to pcmciautils to Documentation/Changes. With recent changes, you don't need to concern yourself with pcmcia-cs even if you have PCMCIA hardware, so the example above the list needed to be adapted as well. Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowksi.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-28 03:28:45 +04:00
Pcmciautils
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Documentation/Changes: convert it to ReST markup - Fix chapter identation inconsistencies; - Convert table to ReST format; - use the right tag for bullets; - Fix bold emphasis; - mark blocks with :: tags; - use verbatim font for files; - make Sphinx happy Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-09-19 14:07:42 +03:00
Documentation: Fix dead URLs to ftp.kernel.org As ftp.kernel.org is closed [0], this commit fixes dead URLs in documents to use www.kernel.org instead. [0] https://www.kernel.org/shutting-down-ftp-services.html Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj38.park@gmail.com> Acked-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2017-03-27 16:05:34 +03:00
- <https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/pcmcia/>
[PATCH] pcmcia: add some Documentation Add some information useful for PCMCIA device driver authors to Documentation/pcmcia/, and reference it in dmesg in case of hash mismatches. Also add a reference to pcmciautils to Documentation/Changes. With recent changes, you don't need to concern yourself with pcmcia-cs even if you have PCMCIA hardware, so the example above the list needed to be adapted as well. Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowksi.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-28 03:28:45 +04:00
Linux-2.6.12-rc2 Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!
2005-04-17 02:20:36 +04:00
Quota-tools
Documentation/Changes: convert it to ReST markup - Fix chapter identation inconsistencies; - Convert table to ReST format; - use the right tag for bullets; - Fix bold emphasis; - mark blocks with :: tags; - use verbatim font for files; - make Sphinx happy Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-09-19 14:07:42 +03:00
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- <http://sourceforge.net/projects/linuxquota/>
Linux-2.6.12-rc2 Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!
2005-04-17 02:20:36 +04:00
[PATCH] DocBook: Use xmlto to process the DocBook files. xmlto uses standared XSLT templates to generate manpages, (x)html pages, and XML FO files which can be processed with passivetex. This is much faster than using jadetex for everything. This patch also reduces the number of kernel-specific scripts that are needed to generate documentation. Signed-off-by: Martin Waitz <tali@admingilde.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-01 19:59:27 +04:00
Linux-2.6.12-rc2 Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!
2005-04-17 02:20:36 +04:00
Intel P6 microcode
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Documentation/Changes: convert it to ReST markup - Fix chapter identation inconsistencies; - Convert table to ReST format; - use the right tag for bullets; - Fix bold emphasis; - mark blocks with :: tags; - use verbatim font for files; - make Sphinx happy Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-09-19 14:07:42 +03:00
- <https://downloadcenter.intel.com/>
Linux-2.6.12-rc2 Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!
2005-04-17 02:20:36 +04:00
udev
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Documentation/Changes: convert it to ReST markup - Fix chapter identation inconsistencies; - Convert table to ReST format; - use the right tag for bullets; - Fix bold emphasis; - mark blocks with :: tags; - use verbatim font for files; - make Sphinx happy Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-09-19 14:07:42 +03:00
- <http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/udev.html>
Linux-2.6.12-rc2 Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!
2005-04-17 02:20:36 +04:00
[PATCH] fuse: add required version info Add information about required version of the userspace library/utilities to Documentation/Changes. Also add pointer to this and to FUSE documentation from Kconfig. Thanks to Anton Altaparmakov for the reminder. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-28 08:45:20 +04:00
FUSE
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Documentation/Changes: convert it to ReST markup - Fix chapter identation inconsistencies; - Convert table to ReST format; - use the right tag for bullets; - Fix bold emphasis; - mark blocks with :: tags; - use verbatim font for files; - make Sphinx happy Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-09-19 14:07:42 +03:00
Documentation/process: update FUSE project website According to the old project site, https://sourceforge.net/projects/fuse/ the project has moved to https://github.com/libfuse/ so we update the link to point to the latest libfuse release. Signed-off-by: Martin Kepplinger <martink@posteo.de> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-03-27 15:59:50 +03:00
- <https://github.com/libfuse/libfuse/releases>
[PATCH] fuse: add required version info Add information about required version of the userspace library/utilities to Documentation/Changes. Also add pointer to this and to FUSE documentation from Kconfig. Thanks to Anton Altaparmakov for the reminder. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-28 08:45:20 +04:00
x86, mce: document new 32bit mcelog requirement in Documentation/Changes Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-04-29 01:37:02 +04:00
mcelog
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Documentation/Changes: convert it to ReST markup - Fix chapter identation inconsistencies; - Convert table to ReST format; - use the right tag for bullets; - Fix bold emphasis; - mark blocks with :: tags; - use verbatim font for files; - make Sphinx happy Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-09-19 14:07:42 +03:00
- <http://www.mcelog.org/>
x86, mce: document new 32bit mcelog requirement in Documentation/Changes Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-04-29 01:37:02 +04:00
Linux-2.6.12-rc2 Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!
2005-04-17 02:20:36 +04:00
Networking
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PPP
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Documentation/Changes: convert it to ReST markup - Fix chapter identation inconsistencies; - Convert table to ReST format; - use the right tag for bullets; - Fix bold emphasis; - mark blocks with :: tags; - use verbatim font for files; - make Sphinx happy Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-09-19 14:07:42 +03:00
- <ftp://ftp.samba.org/pub/ppp/>
Linux-2.6.12-rc2 Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!
2005-04-17 02:20:36 +04:00
NFS-utils
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Documentation/Changes: convert it to ReST markup - Fix chapter identation inconsistencies; - Convert table to ReST format; - use the right tag for bullets; - Fix bold emphasis; - mark blocks with :: tags; - use verbatim font for files; - make Sphinx happy Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-09-19 14:07:42 +03:00
- <http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=14>
Linux-2.6.12-rc2 Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!
2005-04-17 02:20:36 +04:00
Iptables
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Documentation/Changes: convert it to ReST markup - Fix chapter identation inconsistencies; - Convert table to ReST format; - use the right tag for bullets; - Fix bold emphasis; - mark blocks with :: tags; - use verbatim font for files; - make Sphinx happy Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-09-19 14:07:42 +03:00
- <http://www.iptables.org/downloads.html>
Linux-2.6.12-rc2 Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!
2005-04-17 02:20:36 +04:00
Ip-route2
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Documentation/Changes: convert it to ReST markup - Fix chapter identation inconsistencies; - Convert table to ReST format; - use the right tag for bullets; - Fix bold emphasis; - mark blocks with :: tags; - use verbatim font for files; - make Sphinx happy Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-09-19 14:07:42 +03:00
- <https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/net/iproute2/>
Linux-2.6.12-rc2 Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!
2005-04-17 02:20:36 +04:00
OProfile
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Documentation/Changes: convert it to ReST markup - Fix chapter identation inconsistencies; - Convert table to ReST format; - use the right tag for bullets; - Fix bold emphasis; - mark blocks with :: tags; - use verbatim font for files; - make Sphinx happy Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-09-19 14:07:42 +03:00
- <http://oprofile.sf.net/download/>
Linux-2.6.12-rc2 Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!
2005-04-17 02:20:36 +04:00
NFS-Utils
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Documentation/Changes: convert it to ReST markup - Fix chapter identation inconsistencies; - Convert table to ReST format; - use the right tag for bullets; - Fix bold emphasis; - mark blocks with :: tags; - use verbatim font for files; - make Sphinx happy Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-09-19 14:07:42 +03:00
- <http://nfs.sourceforge.net/>
Documentation/Changes: add minimal requirements for documentation build As discussed at linux-doc ML, the best is to keep all documents backward compatible with Sphinx version 1.2, as it is the latest version found on some distros like Debian. All books currently support it. Please notice that, while it mentions the eventual need of XeLaTex and texlive to build pdf files, this is not a minimal requirement, as one could just be interested on building html documents. Also, identifying the minimal requirements for texlive packages is not trivial, as each distribution seems to use different criteria on grouping LaTex functionalities. While here, update the current kernel version to 4.x. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-09-19 14:07:43 +03:00
Kernel documentation
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Sphinx
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- <http://www.sphinx-doc.org/>
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