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Linus Torvalds
df26327ea0 Drop some straggling mentions of gcc-4.9 as being stale
Fix up the admin-guide README file to the new gcc-5.1 requirement, and
remove a stale comment about gcc support for the __assume_aligned__
attribute.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2021-09-13 10:29:44 -07:00
André Almeida
61ffd285bd Documentation: admin-guide: Update kvm/xen config option
Since commit 9bba03d447 ("kconfig: remove 'kvmconfig' and 'xenconfig'
shorthands") kvm/xen config shortcuts are not available anymore. Update
the file to reflect how they should be used, with the full filename.

Signed-off-by: André Almeida <andrealmeid@collabora.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210130014547.123006-2-andrealmeid@collabora.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2021-02-04 14:47:40 -07:00
Thorsten Leemhuis
da514157c4 docs: make reporting-bugs.rst obsolete
Make various places which point to
Documentation/admin-guide/reporting-bugs.rst point to
Documentation/admin-guide/reporting-issues.rst instead. That document is
brand new and as of now is not completely finished. But even at this
stage it's a lot more helpful and accurate than reporting-bugs.rst.
Hence also add a note to reporting-bugs.rst, telling people they're
better off reading reporting-issues.rst instead.

reporting-bugs.rst is scheduled for removal once reporting-issues.rst
is considered ready.

Signed-off-by: Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/3df7c2d16de112b47bb6e6158138608e78562bf5.1607063223.git.linux@leemhuis.info
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-12-08 10:33:27 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
fc67d5bc87 Documentation/admin-guide: README & svga: remove use of "rdev"
"rdev" is considered antiquated, ancient, archaic, obsolete, deprecated
{choose any or all}.

Remove use of "rdev" and "vidmode" (a symlink to rdev) in
admin-guide/README.rst and admin-guide/svga.rst.

"rdev" was removed from util-linux in 2010:
  https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/util-linux/util-linux.git/commit/?id=a3e40c14651fccf18e7954f081e601389baefe3f

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Martin Mares <mj@ucw.cz>
Cc: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Martin Mares <mj@ucw.cz>
Cc: linux-video@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200918015640.8439-2-rdunlap@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-09-24 10:50:31 -06:00
Randy Dunlap
0bddd227f3 Documentation: update for gcc 4.9 requirement
Update Documentation for the gcc v4.9 upgrade requirement.

Fixes: 5429ef62bc ("compiler/gcc: Raise minimum GCC version for kernel builds to 4.8")
Fixes: 6ec4476ac8 ("Raise gcc version requirement to 4.9")
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-07-08 12:28:44 -07:00
Changbin Du
c027b02d89 streamline_config.pl: add LMC_KEEP to preserve some kconfigs
Sometimes it is useful to preserve batches of configs when making
localmodconfig. For example, I usually don't want any usb and fs
modules to be disabled. Now we can do it by:

 $ make LMC_KEEP="drivers/usb:fs" localmodconfig

Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
2020-05-13 10:33:54 +09:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
cd238effef docs: kbuild: convert docs to ReST and rename to *.rst
The kbuild documentation clearly shows that the documents
there are written at different times: some use markdown,
some use their own peculiar logic to split sections.

Convert everything to ReST without affecting too much
the author's style and avoiding adding uneeded markups.

The conversion is actually:
  - add blank lines and identation in order to identify paragraphs;
  - fix tables markups;
  - add some lists markups;
  - mark literal blocks;
  - adjust title markups.

At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to
the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-06-14 14:21:21 -06:00
Randy Dunlap
f07fb1088f Documentation: fix admin-guide/README.rst minimum gcc version requirement
Fix minimum gcc version as specified in Documentation/process/changes.rst.

Suggested-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-02-22 08:36:16 -07:00
Arnd Bergmann
0358affb5c Documentation: change linux-4.x references to 5.x
As linux-5.0.x is coming up soon, the documentation should match,
in particular the README.rst file, so change all 4.x references
accordingly. There was a mix of lowercase and uppercase X here,
which I changed to using lowercase consistently.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-02-17 15:41:05 -07:00
Henrik Austad
a7ddcea58a Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/
This is a respin with a wider audience (all that get_maintainer returned)
and I know this spams a *lot* of people. Not sure what would be the correct
way, so my apologies for ruining your inbox.

The 00-INDEX files are supposed to give a summary of all files present
in a directory, but these files are horribly out of date and their
usefulness is brought into question. Often a simple "ls" would reveal
the same information as the filenames are generally quite descriptive as
a short introduction to what the file covers (it should not surprise
anyone what Documentation/sched/sched-design-CFS.txt covers)

A few years back it was mentioned that these files were no longer really
needed, and they have since then grown further out of date, so perhaps
it is time to just throw them out.

A short status yields the following _outdated_ 00-INDEX files, first
counter is files listed in 00-INDEX but missing in the directory, last
is files present but not listed in 00-INDEX.

List of outdated 00-INDEX:
Documentation: (4/10)
Documentation/sysctl: (0/1)
Documentation/timers: (1/0)
Documentation/blockdev: (3/1)
Documentation/w1/slaves: (0/1)
Documentation/locking: (0/1)
Documentation/devicetree: (0/5)
Documentation/power: (1/1)
Documentation/powerpc: (0/5)
Documentation/arm: (1/0)
Documentation/x86: (0/9)
Documentation/x86/x86_64: (1/1)
Documentation/scsi: (4/4)
Documentation/filesystems: (2/9)
Documentation/filesystems/nfs: (0/2)
Documentation/cgroup-v1: (0/2)
Documentation/kbuild: (0/4)
Documentation/spi: (1/0)
Documentation/virtual/kvm: (1/0)
Documentation/scheduler: (0/2)
Documentation/fb: (0/1)
Documentation/block: (0/1)
Documentation/networking: (6/37)
Documentation/vm: (1/3)

Then there are 364 subdirectories in Documentation/ with several files that
are missing 00-INDEX alltogether (and another 120 with a single file and no
00-INDEX).

I don't really have an opinion to whether or not we /should/ have 00-INDEX,
but the above 00-INDEX should either be removed or be kept up to date. If
we should keep the files, I can try to keep them updated, but I rather not
if we just want to delete them anyway.

As a starting point, remove all index-files and references to 00-INDEX and
see where the discussion is going.

Signed-off-by: Henrik Austad <henrik@austad.us>
Acked-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Just-do-it-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Reviewed-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Acked-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Acked-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: [Almost everybody else]
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00
Michael Rodin
351f10a3ce Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst: add a label for cross-referencing
Add a label to the top of the file to allow cross-referencing.
Currently it's not possible to cross-reference this file from
Documentation/process/howto.rst because of the missing label.

Signed-off-by: Michael Rodin <michael-git@rodin.online>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-06-29 09:24:10 -06:00
Linus Torvalds
bb2407a721 There's been a fair amount of activity in Documentation/ this time around:
- Lots of work aligning Documentation/ABI with reality, done by Aishwarya
    Pant.
 
  - The trace documentation has been converted to RST by Changbin Du
 
  - I thrashed up kernel-doc to deal with a parsing issue and to try to make
    the code more readable.  It's still a 20+-year-old Perl hack, though.
 
  - Lots of other updates, typo fixes, and more.
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Merge tag 'docs-4.17' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
 "There's been a fair amount of activity in Documentation/ this time
  around:

   - Lots of work aligning Documentation/ABI with reality, done by
     Aishwarya Pant.

   - The trace documentation has been converted to RST by Changbin Du

   - I thrashed up kernel-doc to deal with a parsing issue and to try to
     make the code more readable. It's still a 20+-year-old Perl hack,
     though.

   - Lots of other updates, typo fixes, and more"

* tag 'docs-4.17' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (82 commits)
  Documentation/process: update FUSE project website
  docs: kernel-doc: fix parsing of arrays
  dmaengine: Fix spelling for parenthesis in dmatest documentation
  dmaengine: Make dmatest.rst indeed reST compatible
  dmaengine: Add note to dmatest documentation about supported channels
  Documentation: magic-numbers: Fix typo
  Documentation: admin-guide: add kvmconfig, xenconfig and tinyconfig commands
  Input: alps - Update documentation for trackstick v3 format
  Documentation: Mention why %p prints ptrval
  COPYING: use the new text with points to the license files
  COPYING: create a new file with points to the Kernel license files
  Input: trackpoint: document sysfs interface
  xfs: Change URL for the project in xfs.txt
  char/bsr: add sysfs interface documentation
  acpi: nfit: document sysfs interface
  block: rbd: update sysfs interface
  Documentation/sparse: fix typo
  Documentation/CodingStyle: Add an example for braces
  docs/vm: update 00-INDEX
  kernel-doc: Remove __sched markings
  ...
2018-04-03 13:35:51 -07:00
Martin Kepplinger
52c37d410d Documentation: admin-guide: add kvmconfig, xenconfig and tinyconfig commands
Add kvmconfig, xenconfig and tinyconfig to the list of alternative
configuration commands. Descriptions are directly taken from the Makefile.

Signed-off-by: Martin Kepplinger <martink@posteo.de>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-03-26 08:41:35 -06:00
Arnd Bergmann
1ea5afd42a Documentation: arch-support: remove obsolete architectures
A number of architecture ports are obsolete and getting dropped,
so we no longer want to track the respective features.

We already removed the lines for metag and mn10300, this does
the same edits for all the others.

For the remaining 21 architectures, this shows how many are known
to implement each given feature:

19 time/modern-timekeeping/arch-support.txt
19 time/clockevents/arch-support.txt
15 core/tracehook/arch-support.txt
14 core/generic-idle-thread/arch-support.txt
13 locking/lockdep/arch-support.txt
12 io/dma-api-debug/arch-support.txt
11 debug/kgdb/arch-support.txt
10 time/virt-cpuacct/arch-support.txt
 9 debug/kretprobes/arch-support.txt
 9 debug/kprobes/arch-support.txt
 8 vm/THP/arch-support.txt
 8 vm/pte_special/arch-support.txt
 8 vm/numa-memblock/arch-support.txt
 8 io/sg-chain/arch-support.txt
 7 perf/kprobes-event/arch-support.txt
 7 locking/rwsem-optimized/arch-support.txt
 7 debug/gcov-profile-all/arch-support.txt
 7 core/jump-labels/arch-support.txt
 7 core/BPF-JIT/arch-support.txt
 6 vm/ELF-ASLR/arch-support.txt
 6 time/context-tracking/arch-support.txt
 6 seccomp/seccomp-filter/arch-support.txt
 6 debug/stackprotector/arch-support.txt
 5 time/irq-time-acct/arch-support.txt
 5 io/dma-contiguous/arch-support.txt
 5 debug/uprobes/arch-support.txt
 4 vm/ioremap_prot/arch-support.txt
 4 time/arch-tick-broadcast/arch-support.txt
 4 perf/perf-stackdump/arch-support.txt
 4 perf/perf-regs/arch-support.txt
 3 debug/KASAN/arch-support.txt
 2 vm/PG_uncached/arch-support.txt
 2 vm/huge-vmap/arch-support.txt
 2 sched/numa-balancing/arch-support.txt
 2 sched/membarrier-sync-core/arch-support.txt
 2 locking/cmpxchg-local/arch-support.txt
 2 debug/optprobes/arch-support.txt
 2 debug/kprobes-on-ftrace/arch-support.txt
 1 vm/TLB/arch-support.txt
 1 locking/queued-spinlocks/arch-support.txt
 1 locking/queued-rwlocks/arch-support.txt
 1 debug/user-ret-profiler/arch-support.txt
 0 lib/strncasecmp/arch-support.txt

Note that the list does not include riscv or nds32 yet, these still
need to be added.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
2018-03-26 15:56:10 +02:00
Marc Herbert
cedd55d49d kconfig: Remove silentoldconfig from help and docs; fix kconfig/conf's help
As explained by Michal Marek at https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/8/31/189
silentoldconfig has become a misnomer. It has become an internal interface
so remove it from "make help" and Documentation/ to stop confusing people
using it as seen for instance at
https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/835632 Don't remove it from
kconfig/Makefile yet not to break any (other) tool using it.

On the other hand, correct and expand its description in the help of
the (internal) scripts/kconfig/conf.c

Signed-off-by: Marc Herbert <marc.herbert@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
2018-01-28 05:48:31 +09:00
Tom Saeger
3ba9b1b814 Documentation: fix admin-guide doc refs
Make admin-guide document refs valid.

Signed-off-by: Tom Saeger <tom.saeger@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2017-10-12 11:13:28 -06:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
ff41c41943 docs: update old references for DocBook from the documentation
DocBook is mentioned several times at the documentation. Update
the obsolete references from it at the DocBook.

Acked-by: SeongJae Park <sj38.park@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
2017-05-16 08:44:19 -03:00
Michael Heimpold
25a0da73f2 doc: replace FTP URL to kernel.org with HTTPS one
FTP services were shutdown some weeks ago, so the FTP URL
does not work anymore. Fix this by replacing it with
corresponding HTTPS URL.

Signed-off-by: Michael Heimpold <michael.heimpold@i2se.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2017-05-11 11:52:52 -06:00
Hans-Christian Noren Egtvedt
c0c74acbb6 docs: remove all references to AVR32 architecture
The AVR32 architecture support has been removed from the Linux kernel,
hence remove all references to it from Documentation.

Signed-off-by: Hans-Christian Noren Egtvedt <egtvedt@samfundet.no>
Signed-off-by: Håvard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@microchip.com>
Acked-by: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>
2017-05-01 09:27:15 +02:00
Sanjeev
e57ae44a58 Doc: clarify that GPL is GPL v2, not v2+
... and a minor missing period at EOL

Signed-off-by: Sanjeev Gupta <ghane0@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2017-01-13 10:57:30 -07:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
8c27ceff36 docs: fix locations of several documents that got moved
The previous patch renamed several files that are cross-referenced
along the Kernel documentation. Adjust the links to point to
the right places.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
9d85025b04 docs-rst: create an user's manual book
Place README, REPORTING-BUGS, SecurityBugs and kernel-parameters
on an user's manual book.

As we'll be numbering the user's manual, remove the manual
numbering from SecurityBugs.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00