Commit Graph

633295 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Jonathan Corbet
7358bb2f32 docs: Clean up and organize the admin guide a bit
The admin guide is a good start, but it's time to turn it into something
better than an unordered blob of files.  This is a first step in that
direction.  The TOC has been split up and annotated, the guides have been
reordered, and minor tweaks have been applied to a few of them.

One consequence of splitting up the TOC is that we don't really want to use
:numbered: anymore, since the count resets every time and there doesn't
seem to be a way to change that.  Eventually we probably want to group the
documents into sub-books, at which point we can go back to a single TOC,
but it's probably early to do that.

Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-10-27 16:36:06 -06:00
Jonathan Corbet
555af62431 docs: retitle the kernel-documentation.rst
Let's make the title of this document (which shows up in the top page)
better describe its contents.

Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-10-27 16:34:58 -06:00
Jonathan Corbet
b51208d41c docs: Tweak the top-level Sphinx page
This will be the initial landing point for readers, so give them a bit of
introductory material.  Also split the TOC into area-specific chunks to
make the whole thing a bit more approachable.

Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-10-27 16:33:36 -06:00
Jonathan Corbet
9e1f08607f Merge branch 'mauro-books' into docs-next
Merge Mauro's massive patch series creating the process and admin-guide
books.  I think there's a lot of stuff to clean up here, but there's no
point in holding things up for that.

Mauro sez:

This patch series continues the efforts of converting the Linux Kernel
documentation to Sphinx.

It contains text to ReST conversion of several files under Documentation,
and a few ones under the main dir (README, REPORTING-BUGS).

All patches on this series can be found on my development tree:
	https://git.linuxtv.org/mchehab/experimental.git/log/?h=lkml-books-v2

The Kernel docs html output after this series can be seen at:
	https://mchehab.fedorapeople.org/kernel_docs/
2016-10-25 18:05:23 -06:00
Igor Vuk
bb118c56fd Documentation: cpu-hotplug: Fix typos
Fix some minor spelling errors and capitalization issues.

Signed-off-by: Igor Vuk <parcijala@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-10-25 17:07:52 -06:00
SeongJae Park
7b855a120b locking/Doc/ko_KR: Clarify limited control-dependency scope
This commit applies upstream change, commit ebff09a6ff
("locking/Documentation: Clarify limited control-dependency scope"), to
Korean translation.

Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj38.park@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-10-25 16:56:58 -06:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
3cbd4b543b Documentation/00-INDEX: remove legacy media directories
The dvb/ and video4linux/ dirs were removed, as now, all media
documentation is under media/.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
6bef44b9b9 README: add a new README file, pointing to the Documentation/
As we moved the real README file to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst,
let's add a replacement, pointing to it, and giving the main directions
about documentation.

In the future, perhaps it would be worth to move the contents
of Documentation/00-Index into this README.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
08a9a8d44c doc: re-add CodingStyle and SubmittingPatches
Those files got moved to Documentation/process, but as they're very
well known files, add pointers to their new locations.

PS.: I opted to not merge this patch with the previous one
in order to make the diff of the previous one more consistent,
as it will show only renames.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00
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
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
186128f753 docs-rst: add documents to development-process
Add several documents to the development-process ReST book.

As we don't want renames, use symlinks instead, keeping those
documents on their original place.

Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
0e4f07a65f docs: rename development-process/ to process/
As we'll type this a lot, after adding CodingStyle & friends,
let's rename the directory name to a shorter one.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
44b10006a9 README: convert it to ReST markup
Adjust the readme file for it to use the ReST markup:

- add chapter/section markups;
- use ``foo`` for commands;
- use :: for verbatim and script blocks;
- replace unsupported markup _foo_ by **foo**;
- add cross-references to other ReST files;
- use lower case on the section titles, to match other ReST files.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
afeb000e1a REPORTING-BUGS: convert to ReST markup
- add a title to the document;
- use :: before verbatim blocks;
- add blank lines where required;
- use protocol for URL references;
- use a verbatim block for the bugs template;
- add cross references to SecurityBugs.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
8c287de37b Documentation/CodeOfConflict: convert to ReST
Fix ReST notation for a bullet item

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
35a1beb9c4 Documentation/parport.txt: fix table to show on LaTeX
Sphinx doesn't like nested tables on the LaTex output.

So, change the table there to be displayed properly at
the PDF output.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
9c27d77d99 Documentation/volatile-considered-harmful.txt: convert to ReST markup
- Fix document section markups;
- use quote blocks where needed;
- adjust spaces and blank lines;
- add it to the development-processs book.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
27641b953c Documentation/VGA-softcursor.txt: convert to ReST markup
- Fix document title;
- use quote blocks where needed;
- use monotonic fonts for config options and file names;
- adjust whitespaces and blank lines;
- add it to the user's book.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
77514391ee Documentation/unicode.txt: convert it to ReST markup
Probably, unicode is something that we might remove from the
docs, as all modern systems support it. Yet, this chapter
is fun, as it mentions support for the Klington fictional
charset ;)

On the other hand, I bet all other OS user manuals
explicit mention unicode support.

So, convert it to ReST and include it at the user's book.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
c8956bb7dd Documentation/sysrq.txt: convert to ReST markup
- Fix document title;
- use a table for the valid commands;
- use quote blocks where needed;
- use monotonic fonts for config options and file names;
- adjust whitespaces and blank lines;
- add it to the user's book.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
3177ae4a10 Documentation/sysfs-rules.txt: convert it to ReST markup
- Fix document title;
- use quote blocks where needed;
- use monotonic fonts for config options and file names;
- adjust whitespaces and blank lines;
- add it to the user's book.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
b2777b650c Documentation/ramoops.txt: convert it to ReST format
- Fix document title;
- use quote blocks where needed;
- use monotonic fonts for config options and file names;
- adjust whitespaces and blank lines;
- add it to the user's book.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
e095f0711b Documentation/parport.txt: convert to ReST markup
- Add a document title;
- use quote blocks where needed;
- convert parameters to a nested table;
- use monotonic fonts for config options and file names;
- adjust whitespaces and blank lines;
- replace _foo_ by **foo**;
- add it to the user's book.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
9f4b9ec63c Documentation/oops-tracing.txt: convert to ReST markup
- Add a document title;
- use .. note:: markup;
- use quote blocks where needed;
- use monotonic fonts for config options and file names;
- adjust whitespaces and blank lines;
- replace _foo_ by **foo**;
- while here, remove whitespaces at the end of paragraph;
- add it to the user's book.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
503c5bf9fa Documentation/java.txt: convert to ReST markup
- Fix document title;
- use quote blocks where needed;
- use monotonic fonts for config options and file names;
- adjust whitespaces and blank lines;
- add it to the user's book.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
9cdda3d23b Documentation/mono.txt: convert to ReST markup
- Fix document title;
- use quote blocks where needed;
- use .. note:: for notes;
- use monotonic fonts for config options and file names;
- adjust whitespaces and blank lines;
- add it to the user's book.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
94e980cc45 Documentation/module-signing.txt: convert to ReST markup
- Fix identatio for the document title;
- remove its index;
- create a table for hash algorithm to be used;
- use quote blocks where needed;
- use monotonic fonts for parameters;
- adjust whitespaces and blank lines;
- Fix case on section titles;
- add it to the user's book.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
aeb04e52f1 Documentation/md.txt: Convert to ReST markup
- add a title for the document;
- convert some parameters to tables;
- use quote blocks where needed;
- use monotonic fonts for parameters;
- adjust whitespaces and blank lines;
- add it to the user's book.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
9a11e15381 Documentation/magic-number.txt: convert it to ReST markup
- add a title for the document;
- convert the table;
- use quote block for the changelog;
- use monotonic fonts for file names;
- adjust whitespaces and blank lines;
- add it to the user's book.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
8887addef5 Documentation/init.txt: convert to ReST markup
- use a quote blocks where needed;
- use ``foo`` for monotonic;
- adjust whitespaces and blank lines;
- fix the second list (that starts with 0, instead of A)
- add it to the user's book.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
5d0ad55378 Documentation/initrd.txt: convert to ReST markup
- use a quote blocks where needed;
- fix the chapter/section/subsection markups;
- use ``foo`` for monotonic;
- use .. note:: for /sbin/init file permissions;
- adjust whitespaces and blank lines;
- add it to the user's book.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
7d4e3517bd Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt: convert it to ReST markup
- use a quote blocks where needed;
- fix the chapter/section/subsection markups;
- use ``foo`` for monotonic;
- use .. note:: for the line-range note;
- cleanup whitespaces;
- add it to the user's book.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
d9f92f9f9d Documentation/devices.rst: convert it to ReST markup
- use a quote block for the big device major/minor list;
- use tables for the other device tables;
- fix the chapter/section/subsection markups;
- use ``foo`` for monotonic;
- use .. attention:: for the attention note to developers;
- use cross-references where needed;
- cleanup whitespaces;
- add it to the user's book.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
953ab835a9 Documentation/BUG-HUNTING: convert to ReST markup
- Add a document title and remove its own index;
- use monotonic fonts for paths;
- use quote blocks where needed;
- adjust/use spaces to properly format paragraphs;
- add it to the user book.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
8e7fbec662 Documentation/braille-console: convert it to ReST markup
- Fix identation for the document title;
- use monotonic fonts for paths;
- use quote blocks where needed;
- adjust spaces to properly format paragraphs;
- use :menuselection: and :kbd: for the menu item and keys;
- point too the right item at the menu;
- add it to the user book.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
c2ffd5dafa Documentation/serial-console.txt: convert it to ReST markup
- Fix identation for the document title;
- use monotonic fonts for paths;
- use quote blocks where needed;
- adjust spaces to properly format paragraphs;
- use :menuselection: for the menu item;
- add it to the user book.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
5902981bce Documentation/binfmt_misc.txt: convert it to ReST markup
- Fix identation for the document title;
- use monotonic fonts for commands, paths, etc;
- use quote blocks where needed;
- adjust spaces to properly format paragraphs;
- add it to the user book.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
3bdb5971ff Documentation/basic_profiling.rst: convert to ReST markup
Convert it to ReST markup and add it to the user book:

- Add a title to the document;
- touch spaces/new lines to fix Sphinx format;
- use ``foo`` for commands;
- use quote blocks where needed;
- add it to the user book;

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
d078a81519 Documentation/bad_memory.txt: convert it to ReST markup
- promote the section level of the document name;
- add/remove spaces/new lines where needed to format the output;
- use quote blocks.
- add it to the user book.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
684adc0aa3 Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt: convert to ReST markup
Adjust the file for it to be parsed by Sphinx:
- adjust the document title to be parsed;
- use :: for quote blocks;
- fix the horizontal bar markup;
- lower case the TODO title.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
12983bcd82 Documentation/adding-syscalls.txt: convert it to ReST markup
Convert adding-syscalls.txt to ReST markup and add it to the
development-process book:

- add extra lines to make Sphinx to correctly parse paragraphs;
- use quote blocks for examples;
- use monotonic font for dirs, function calls, etc;
- mark manpage pages using the right markup;
- add cross-reference to SubmittingPatches.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
3a61baddce Documentation/applying-patches.txt: fix a bad external link
We can't use :ref: for external links.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00
Martyn Welch
75a163c4a3 vme: Convert documentation to reStructuredText, move under driver APIs
Perform a relatively simple conversion of vme_api.txt to reStructuredText
and move under driver-api, which seems the most logical place for this
documentation.

Signed-off-by: Martyn Welch <martyn.welch@collabora.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-10-21 15:20:08 -06:00
Masanari Iida
5d812b47a6 Doc: cciss: Fix a typo in cciss.txt
This patch fix a spelling typo in cciss.txt

Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Don Brace <don.brace@microsemi.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-10-21 15:17:39 -06:00
Stephen Hemminger
a164a8a663 doc: add documentation for uio-hv-generic
Update UIO documentation to include basic information about
uio_hv_generic.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-10-21 15:10:06 -06:00
Masanari Iida
5ac9baf47a Doc: dm raid: Fix typo in dm-raid.txt
This patch fix spelling typos in Documentation/device-mapper/dm-raid.txt.

Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-10-21 14:55:27 -06:00
Marcin Nowakowski
7058763b3f Documentation/trace/uprobetracer.txt: fix incorrect examples
Current uprobetracer examples don't work as they use an incorrect syntax
- if no event name is specified then 'p/r' must not be followed by a
  colon
- if no event name is specified then the default event name will have a
  'p_' prefix, so use that in the '-' example as well

Signed-off-by: Marcin Nowakowski <marcin.nowakowski@imgtec.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-10-21 14:54:35 -06:00
Jani Nikula
58af04dff7 Documentation/sphinx: rename kernel-doc.py to kerneldoc.py
Python module names should not have hyphens per [PEP 8]. Drop the hyphen
from kernel-doc.py. The extension directive remains unchanged.

[PEP 8] https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/#package-and-module-names

Reported-by: Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@darmarit.de>
Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-10-19 16:02:00 -06:00
Linus Torvalds
1001354ca3 Linux 4.9-rc1 2016-10-15 12:17:50 -07:00