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Commit 31b24bee33 ("docs: add a warning to submitting-drivers.rst")
in October 2016 already warns "This (...) should maybe just be deleted,
but I'm not quite ready to do that yet".
Maybe, six years ago, we were not ready but let us remove old content
for the better now and structure and maintain less content in the kernel
documentation with a better result.
Drop this already outdated document and adjust all textual references.
Here is an argument why deleting the content will not remove any useful
information to the existing kernel documentation, individually broken down
for each section.
Section "Allocating Device Numbers" refers to https://www.lanana.org/, and
then refers to Documentation/admin-guide/devices.rst.
However, the devices.rst clearly states:
"The version of this document at lanana.org is no longer maintained."
Everything needed for submitting drivers is already stated in devices.rst
and the reference to https://www.lanana.org/ is outdated, and should be
just deleted.
Section "Who To Submit Drivers To" is all about Linux 2.0 - 2.6, before
the new release version scheme; the mentioned developers are still around,
but actually not the first developers to contact anymore.
Section "What Criteria Determine Acceptance" has a few bullet points:
Licensing and Copyright is well-covered in process/kernel-license.rst.
Interfaces, Code, Portability, Clarity state some obvious things about
ensuring kernel code quality.
Control suggests to add a MAINTAINERS entry, which is already mentioned in
6.Followthrough.rst: "... added yourself to the MAINTAINERS file..."
PM support states a bit about implementing and testing power management of
a driver, it remains an open question where to place that in the process
documents. Driver developers interested in power management will find the
corresponding part on power management in the kernel documentation anyway.
In section "What Criteria Do Not Determine Acceptance", the points Vendor
and Author states something basic consequence of the kernel being an
open-source community software development. Probably no need to mention it
nowadays.
Section "Resources" lists resources that are also mentioned elsewhere more
central.
- Linux kernel tree and mailing list is mentioned in many places.
- https://lwn.net/Kernel/LDD3/ is mentioned in
Documentation/process/kernel-docs.rst.
- https://lwn.net/ is mentioned in:
- Documentation/process/8.Conclusion.rst
- Documentation/process/kernel-docs.rst
- https://kernelnewbies.org/ is mentioned in:
- Documentation/process/8.Conclusion.rst
- Documentation/process/kernel-docs.rst
- http://www.linux-usb.org/ is mentioned in
Documentation/driver-api/usb/usb.rst
- https://landley.net/kdocs/ols/2002/ols2002-pages-545-555.pdf
is mentioned in Documentation/process/kernel-docs.rst
- https://kernelnewbies.org/KernelJanitors is mentioned in
Documentation/process/howto.rst
- https://git-scm.com/ is mentioned in
- Documentation/process/2.Process.rst
- Documentation/process/7.AdvancedTopics.rst
- Documentation/process/howto.rst
Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220704122537.3407-7-lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
The statement that the Latex version of Linux Device List is unmaintained,
must go back to some historic time where there were actually two separate
document sources, one in a txt format and another in a tex format (maybe
even just on lanana.org).
Nowadays, html and tex are generated from the ReST document file and the
statement might be confused, believing the actual generated LaTeX document
from the maintained ReST document could be an unmaintained one.
Remove this statement on the LaTeX version and only keep pointing out that
the version on lanana.org is no longer maintained.
Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220704122537.3407-6-lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
One section in submitting-drivers.rst was just a collection of references
to other external documentation. All except the one added in this commit
is already mentioned in kernel-docs or other places in the kernel
documentation.
Add Arjan van de Ven's article on How to NOT write kernel driver to this
index of further kernel documentation.
Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220704122537.3407-5-lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Remove and rephrase statements that only make sense if a single author
exclusively would maintain this document, but we would really want to
consider this being a page maintained by the kernel community, as it is
placed in the kernel repository, and let us hope that more contributors
suggest some more documents.
Further, do some minor word-smithing.
Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220704122537.3407-4-lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
The original title comes from copying the content from a web page that
covered various mixed computer-science material. Within the kernel
documentation and its current structure, the title can be shortened.
Other titles considered, but not selected were:
- Index of More Kernel Documentation
- Further Kernel Documentation
- References to Further Kernel Documentation
Shorten the title.
Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220704122537.3407-3-lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
The documents on each section of this document are ordered by its
published date, from the newest to the oldest.
In the kernel-docs.rst, the references on each section of this document
are intended to be ordered by its published date, from the newest to the
oldest. The Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide was published in 2021;
so, it is placed at the top as the most recent publication after the
rolling-version "Linux Kernel Mailing List Glossary" reference.
Fixes: 630c8fa02f ("Documentation: Update details of The Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide")
Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220704122537.3407-2-lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Last English version used:
commit d2b40ba2cc ("docs: *-regressions.rst: explain how quickly
issues should be handled")
Signed-off-by: Wu XiangCheng <bobwxc@email.cn>
Reviewed-by: Yanteng Si<siyanteng@loongson.cn>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/YsbuDGIpUjOzfAAh@bobwxc.mipc
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Add an initial documentation topic for Linux enlightenments to
run as a guest on Microsoft's Hyper-V hypervisor, linked under
the "virt" documentation area. Update the virt doc index.rst
and the MAINTAINERS file.
Signed-off-by: Michael Kelley <mikelley@microsoft.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1657561704-12631-2-git-send-email-mikelley@microsoft.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
I noticed that there are some Chinese words that can be more accurate.
So I fix them as follows.
首先，英文原文中的"release" 在这个语境下
是物理页面“释放”的意思，而不是“发布”。
其次，标准表的第一列和第二列，
表达的是“长短键”的意思，第一列是“短键”，
而第二列是“长键”。这样翻译或会更清晰一些。
Signed-off-by: Yixuan Cao <caoyixuan2019@email.szu.edu.cn>
Acked-by: Yanteng Si<siyanteng@loongson.cn>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220708172351.20928-1-caoyixuan2019@email.szu.edu.cn
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Translate core-api/watch_queue.rst into Chinese.
Last English version used:
commit f5461124d5 ("Documentation: move watch_queue to core-api").
Signed-off-by: Binbin Zhou <zhoubinbin@loongson.cn>
Reviewed-by: Wu XiangCheng <bobwxc@email.cn>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220710133604.31382-1-zhoubinbin@loongson.cn
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
After sending a patch to linux-doc-tw-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net, I got
the typical response for a moderated list:
Your mail to 'linux-doc-tw-discuss' with the subject
....
Is being held until the list moderator can review it for approval.
The reason it is being held:
Post by non-member to a members-only list
Mark this mailing list moderated in MAINTAINERS.
Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220713043516.19290-1-lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Since IDE support was deleted by Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
Jun 16 2021, drop the left-over from README file, updating the
documentation to point to ata/pata_falcon.c.
Fixes: 44b1fbc0f5 ("m68k/q40: Replace q40ide driver with pata_falcon and falconide")
Fixes: b7fb14d3ac ("ide: remove the legacy ide driver")
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/d6e3482ed622b6953db69cddb70f20c55c96e4da.1656234456.git.mchehab@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Changeset 8df0136376 ("docs: netdev: move the netdev-FAQ to the process pages")
renamed: Documentation/networking/netdev-FAQ.rst
to: Documentation/process/maintainer-netdev.rst.
Update its cross-reference accordingly.
Fixes: 8df0136376 ("docs: netdev: move the netdev-FAQ to the process pages")
Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/aed0482b3d931bfcfe84f38197526edcbb8fd830.1656234456.git.mchehab@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
The automarkup code tries to look up symbols once as a function, and once
as a macro. The Sphinx C domain code, though, totally ignores that
distinction and will return the same results either way. So just look
things up once and be done with it; the resulting output does not change,
but htmldocs build time drops by about 5%.
Tested-by: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220630163630.714673-3-corbet@lwn.net
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
The automarkup code tries to create a lot of cross-references that don't
exist. Cross-reference lookups are expensive, especially in later versions
of Sphinx, so there is value in avoiding unnecessary ones. Remember
attempts that failed and do not retry them.
This improves the htmldocs build time by 5-10% depending on the phase of
the moon and other factors.
Tested-by: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220630163630.714673-2-corbet@lwn.net
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
All extern functions of drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c are already
inside the Kernel documentation, as driver-api/gpio/index.rst
already includes it.
Placing a kernel-doc here will only cause mess, as the same symbol
will be placed on two parts of the document, causing breakages
in cross-references.
So, instead, add a cross-reference there.
This solves those Sphinx 3.1+ warnings:
.../Documentation/driver-api/hte/tegra194-hte:28: ./drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c:2464: WARNING: Duplicate C declaration, also defined at driver-api/gpio/index:2464.
.../Documentation/driver-api/hte/tegra194-hte:28: ./drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c:2493: WARNING: Duplicate C declaration, also defined at driver-api/gpio/index:2493.
.../Documentation/driver-api/hte/tegra194-hte.rst:2464: WARNING: Duplicate C declaration, also defined at driver-api/gpio/index:2464.
.../Documentation/driver-api/hte/tegra194-hte.rst:2464: WARNING: Duplicate C declaration, also defined at driver-api/gpio/index:2464.
.../Documentation/driver-api/hte/tegra194-hte.rst:2464: WARNING: Duplicate C declaration, also defined at driver-api/gpio/index:2464.
.../Documentation/driver-api/hte/tegra194-hte.rst:2493: WARNING: Duplicate C declaration, also defined at driver-api/gpio/index:2493.
.../Documentation/driver-api/hte/tegra194-hte.rst:2493: WARNING: Duplicate C declaration, also defined at driver-api/gpio/index:2493.
.../Documentation/driver-api/hte/tegra194-hte.rst:2493: WARNING: Duplicate C declaration, also defined at driver-api/gpio/index:2493.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/de81b472f552bd651f140f0aa779a29652fffa62.1656759989.git.mchehab@kernel.org
Acked-by: Dipen Patel <dipenp@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
As it is not a consensus about installing sphinx using venv, and
modern distributions are now shipping with Sphinx versions above
the minimal requirements to build the docs, provide both venv
and package install commands by default.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/7c99d985df204c73e3daafd5fd2f30a31269405d.1656756450.git.mchehab@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
After distro upgrades, the directory names for python may change.
On such case, the previously-created venv will be broken, and
sphinx-build won't run.
Add a logic to report it.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/f117f03555b0636d2be0b68f3a23b1d3f03ccf1d.1656756450.git.mchehab@kernel.org
[jc: fixed typo in warning message]
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
The logic which checks if the venv version is good enough
but was not activated is broken: it is checking against
the wrong val, making it to recommend to re-create a venv
every time. Fix it.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/afe01b7863fd655986d84ace8948f3d7aede796d.1656756450.git.mchehab@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
SPHINXDIRS is useful when you want to test build only those
documents affected by your changes.
Mention it in the "Sphinx Build" section.
Signed-off-by: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com>
Cc: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@orcam.me.uk>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/50d6f0bc-030d-9529-0665-e2b3e7c792d8@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
I tried running `make pdfdocs` on NixOS, but it failed because
get_feat.pl uses a shebang line with /usr/bin/perl, and that file path
doesn't exist on NixOS. Using the more portable /usr/bin/env perl fixes
the problem.
Signed-off-by: David Reaver <me@davidreaver.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220625211548.1200198-1-me@davidreaver.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Last time I forgot to edit locking/index.rst so the Chinese translation
of spinlocks hasn't been shown on web yet.
Signed-off-by: Tang Yizhou <yizhou.tang@shopee.com>
Reviewed-by: Yanteng Si<siyanteng@loongson.cn>
Reviewed-by: Alex Shi <alexs@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220629013240.65386-2-yizhou.tang@shopee.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
kernel-doc.rst has two 1st level section titles of "Writing
kernel-doc comments" and "Including kernel-doc comments".
Therefore, rather than using the first one, put a meta title
of "Kernel-doc comments" for the title of the resulting HTML
page by using the "title" directive.
Signed-off-by: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/15636c13-7fa2-f973-6d3d-361222b839ef@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
With kernel releases v5.18 and later, if you have Inkscape, images
embedded in PDF documents are of vector graphics, not the raster
images as are the case with pre-v5.18 releases.
Even with pre-5.18 releases, having Inkscape would improve images
converted from some of SVG files which are not fully covered by the
limited capability of rsvg-convert(1) [1].
Add a footnote mentioning the expected improvements of such images.
Link: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/librsvg#non-goals-of-librsvg [1]
Signed-off-by: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/81cddbde-bc28-bec1-fca4-3c8fe2df502f@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Improve and add instructions to add new tests. Add build commands to
test before sending the new test patch.
Signed-off-by: Muhammad Usama Anjum <usama.anjum@collabora.com>
Reviewed-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220521073651.4191910-1-usama.anjum@collabora.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
* update to commit f35cf1a59e ("Documentation: kernel-hacking: minor
edits for style")
* fix a homophone typo reported by Li Feng
Reported-by: Li Feng <felixlee868@icloud.com>
Signed-off-by: Wu XiangCheng <bobwxc@email.cn>
Reviewed-by: Yanteng Si <siyanteng@loongson.cn>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/Yp41+eTjoPRa4hrl@bobwxc.mipc
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
