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The bpf-helpers(7) manual page shipped in the man-pages project is
generated from the documentation contained in the BPF UAPI header, in
the Linux repository, parsed by script/bpf_doc.py and then fed to
rst2man.
The man page should contain the date of last modification of the
documentation. This commit adds the relevant date when generating the
page.
Before:
$ ./scripts/bpf_doc.py helpers | rst2man | grep '\.TH'
.TH BPF-HELPERS 7 "" "Linux v5.19-14022-g30d2a4d74e11" ""
After:
$ ./scripts/bpf_doc.py helpers | rst2man | grep '\.TH'
.TH BPF-HELPERS 7 "2022-08-15" "Linux v5.19-14022-g30d2a4d74e11" ""
We get the version by using "git log" to look for the commit date of the
latest change to the section of the BPF header containing the
documentation. If the command fails, we just skip the date field. and
keep generating the page.
Reported-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Quentin Monnet <quentin@isovalent.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Reviewed-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20220823155327.98888-2-quentin@isovalent.com
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.