A patch documenting how to specify which kernels a particular fix should
be backported to (seemingly) inadvertently added a minus sign after the
kernel version. This particular stable-tag format had never been used
prior to this patch, and was neither present when the patch in question
was first submitted (it was added in v2 without any comment).
Drop the minus sign to avoid any confusion.
Fixes: fdc81b7910 ("stable_kernel_rules: Add clause about specification of kernel versions to patch.")
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
This corrects a set of spelling mistakes, probably from an
automated conversion.
Signed-off-by: Sanjeev Gupta <ghane0@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
The original text was not clear if white space or other harmless patches
should be merged in -rc kernels. The discussion at Kernel Summit said
that we should be more strict about sending regression fixes only.
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Having the kernel-documentation at the topmost level doesn't
allow generating a separate PDF file for it. Also, makes harder
to add extra contents. So, place it on a sub-dir.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Commit 865a1caa4b ("CodingStyle: Clarify and complete chapter 7")
renamed the label "out_buffer" to "out_free_buffer", but missed to
change this line.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Reviewed-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
`Specific guidelines for the kernel documentation` section of
`kernel-documentation.rst` suggests to use ``~`` for subsection but
subsections in HOWTO is not marked in the format. This commit marks
them in the format.
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj38.park@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
The creation of the admin and process guides is a great thing, but, without
care, we risk replacing a messy docs directory with a few messy Sphinx
books. In an attempt to head that off and show what I'm thinking, here's a
set of tweaks that, I think, make the existing Sphinx-formatted docs a bit
more accessible.
This is ancient stuff and we don't do things this way anymore. In the
absence of simply deleting the document, at least add a warning to it.
Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
This is crufty stuff and should maybe just be deleted, but I'm not quite
ready to do that yet.
Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
I believe this makes the page as a whole more approachable.
Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
The main goal here was to get the subsections to show in the TOC as they do
for all the other documents. Also call out the DCO in the section title
since it's important.
Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Put like documents together, with the essential ones at the top, and split
the TOC into sections.
Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
The index should only be included if the build of the sub-folder is done
with the html-builder (HTML output).
Signed-off-by: Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@darmarit.de>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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>
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>
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>
Johan Hovold