docs: Rewrite the front page
The front page is the entry point to the documentation, especially for people who read it online. It's a big mess of everything we could think to toss into it. Rewrite the page with an eye toward simplicity and making it easy for readers to get going toward what they really want to find. This is only a beginning, but it makes our docs more approachable than before. Acked-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com> Reviewed-by: David Vernet <void@manifault.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220927160559.97154-3-corbet@lwn.net Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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documentation are welcome; join the linux-doc list at vger.kernel.org if
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you want to help out.
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Licensing documentation
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-----------------------
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Working with the development community
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--------------------------------------
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The following describes the license of the Linux kernel source code
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(GPLv2), how to properly mark the license of individual files in the source
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tree, as well as links to the full license text.
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The essential guides for interacting with the kernel's development
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community and getting your work upstream.
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.. toctree::
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:maxdepth: 1
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process/development-process
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process/submitting-patches
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Code of conduct <process/code-of-conduct>
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maintainer/index
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All development-process docs <process/index>
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Internal API manuals
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--------------------
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Manuals for use by developers working to interface with the rest of the
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kernel.
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.. toctree::
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:maxdepth: 1
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core-api/index
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driver-api/index
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subsystem-apis
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Locking in the kernel <locking/index>
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Development tools and processes
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-------------------------------
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Various other manuals with useful information for all kernel developers.
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.. toctree::
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:maxdepth: 1
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process/license-rules
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doc-guide/index
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dev-tools/index
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dev-tools/testing-overview
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kernel-hacking/index
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trace/index
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fault-injection/index
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livepatch/index
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* :ref:`kernel_licensing`
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User-oriented documentation
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---------------------------
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The following manuals are written for *users* of the kernel — those who are
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trying to get it to work optimally on a given system.
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trying to get it to work optimally on a given system and application
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developers seeking information on the kernel's user-space APIs.
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.. toctree::
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:maxdepth: 2
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:maxdepth: 1
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admin-guide/index
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kbuild/index
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The kernel build system <kbuild/index>
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admin-guide/reporting-issues.rst
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User-space tools <tools/index>
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userspace-api/index
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Firmware-related documentation
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@ -45,104 +89,17 @@ The following holds information on the kernel's expectations regarding the
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platform firmwares.
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.. toctree::
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:maxdepth: 2
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:maxdepth: 1
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firmware-guide/index
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devicetree/index
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Application-developer documentation
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-----------------------------------
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The user-space API manual gathers together documents describing aspects of
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the kernel interface as seen by application developers.
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.. toctree::
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:maxdepth: 2
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userspace-api/index
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Introduction to kernel development
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----------------------------------
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These manuals contain overall information about how to develop the kernel.
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The kernel community is quite large, with thousands of developers
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contributing over the course of a year. As with any large community,
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knowing how things are done will make the process of getting your changes
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merged much easier.
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.. toctree::
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:maxdepth: 2
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process/index
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dev-tools/index
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doc-guide/index
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kernel-hacking/index
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trace/index
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maintainer/index
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fault-injection/index
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livepatch/index
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Kernel API documentation
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------------------------
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These books get into the details of how specific kernel subsystems work
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from the point of view of a kernel developer. Much of the information here
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is taken directly from the kernel source, with supplemental material added
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as needed (or at least as we managed to add it — probably *not* all that is
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needed).
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.. toctree::
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:maxdepth: 2
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driver-api/index
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core-api/index
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locking/index
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accounting/index
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block/index
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cdrom/index
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cpu-freq/index
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fb/index
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fpga/index
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hid/index
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i2c/index
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iio/index
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isdn/index
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infiniband/index
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leds/index
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netlabel/index
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networking/index
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pcmcia/index
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power/index
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target/index
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timers/index
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spi/index
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w1/index
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watchdog/index
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virt/index
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input/index
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hwmon/index
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gpu/index
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security/index
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sound/index
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crypto/index
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filesystems/index
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mm/index
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bpf/index
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usb/index
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PCI/index
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scsi/index
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misc-devices/index
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scheduler/index
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mhi/index
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peci/index
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Architecture-agnostic documentation
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-----------------------------------
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.. toctree::
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:maxdepth: 2
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:maxdepth: 1
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asm-annotations
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@ -163,9 +120,8 @@ of the documentation body, or may require some adjustments and/or conversion
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to ReStructured Text format, or are simply too old.
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.. toctree::
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:maxdepth: 2
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:maxdepth: 1
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tools/index
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staging/index
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Documentation/subsystem-apis.rst
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.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
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==============================
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Kernel subsystem documentation
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==============================
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These books get into the details of how specific kernel subsystems work
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from the point of view of a kernel developer. Much of the information here
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is taken directly from the kernel source, with supplemental material added
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as needed (or at least as we managed to add it — probably *not* all that is
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needed).
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**Fixme**: much more organizational work is needed here.
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.. toctree::
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:maxdepth: 1
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driver-api/index
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core-api/index
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locking/index
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accounting/index
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block/index
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cdrom/index
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cpu-freq/index
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fb/index
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fpga/index
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hid/index
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i2c/index
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iio/index
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isdn/index
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infiniband/index
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leds/index
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netlabel/index
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networking/index
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pcmcia/index
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power/index
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target/index
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timers/index
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spi/index
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w1/index
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watchdog/index
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virt/index
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input/index
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hwmon/index
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gpu/index
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security/index
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sound/index
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crypto/index
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filesystems/index
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mm/index
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bpf/index
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usb/index
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PCI/index
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scsi/index
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misc-devices/index
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scheduler/index
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mhi/index
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peci/index
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