There is currently very little documentation in the kernel on maintainer
level tasks. In particular there are no documents on creating pull
requests to submit to Linus.
Quoting Greg Kroah-Hartman on LKML:
Anyway, this actually came up at the kernel summit / maintainer
meeting a few weeks ago, in that "how do I make a
good pull request to Linus" is something we need to document.
Here's what I do, and it seems to work well, so maybe we should turn
it into the start of the documentation for how to do it.
(quote references: kernel summit, Europe 2017)
Create a new kernel documentation book 'how to be a maintainer'
(suggested by Jonathan Corbet). Add chapters on 'configuring git' and
'creating a pull request'.
Most of the content was written by Linus Torvalds and Greg Kroah-Hartman
in discussion on LKML. This is stated at the start of one of the
chapters and the original email thread is referenced in
'pull-requests.rst'.
Signed-off-by: Tobin C. Harding <me@tobin.cc>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
This is probably the lamest patch ever, but then again "Welcome to The
Linux Kernel's documentation" is nearly equally lame. Really, we don't
need to "Welcome" people to the documentation, just tell them what the
site is about.
Signed-off-by: Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org>
Acked-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Use pandoc to convert documentation to ReST by calling
Documentation/sphinx/tmplcvt script.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Use pandoc to convert documentation to ReST by calling
Documentation/sphinx/tmplcvt script.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Use pandoc to convert documentation to ReST by calling
Documentation/sphinx/tmplcvt script.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Use pandoc to convert documentation to ReST by calling
Documentation/sphinx/tmplcvt script.
- Manually adjusted to use ..note and ..warning
- Minor fixes for it to be parsed without errors
- Use **bold** for emphasis.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
The input subsystem documentation got converted into ReST.
Add it to the main documentation index and use kernel-figure
for the two svg images there.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
This commit adds Japanese translation of HOWTO document into rst based
documentation build system with updates.
Signed-off-by: Tsugikazu Shibata <tshibata@ab.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
This is meant to be the place for documentation relevant to application
developers. It's empty for the moment, but at least we have a place now!
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Tested by the command:
make htmldocs
During the compiling process, zh_CN/coding-style.rst has no errors and
warnings generated, the generated html document has been checked.
Signed-off-by: Andy Deng <theandy.deng@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
With the conversion of the kernel crypto API DocBook to Sphinx, the
monolithic document is broken up into individual documents. The
documentation is unchanged with the exception of a slight reordering to
keep the individual document parts self-contained.
Signed-off-by: Stephan Mueller <smueller@chronox.de>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Put this documentation with the other driver docs and try to keep the top
level reasonably clean.
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
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>
This commit adds Korean translation of HOWTO document into rst based
documentation build system.
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj38.park@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
A simple conversion of alsa-driver-api document from DocBook to ReST.
It's moved to the new Documentation/sound/kernel-api subdirectory that
will contain other ALSA kernel API documents.
The GPL legal note was removed, as it's superfluous (and doesn't fit
with ReST kernel docs pretty well).
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
In order too make Documentation root directory cleaner move the tpm
directory under Documentation/security.
Signed-off-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Transitioned the tpm_vtpm_proxy documentation to the Sphinx
infrastructure and removed parts from the documentation that are easier
to pull from the sources. Restructured vtpm_proxy.h and tpm_vtpm_proxy.c
to be compatible with this approach and wrote associated documentation
comments.
Signed-off-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.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 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>
Add minimal conf.py and moved dev-tools/tools.rst to dev-tools/index.rst
makes the dev-tools folder buildable stand-alone. To build only this
folder run::
make SPHINXDIRS=dev-tools htmldocs
make SPHINXDIRS=dev-tools pdfdocs
Signed-off-by: Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@darmarit.de>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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>
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>
This is just a very basic conversion, I've split up the original
multi-book template, and also split up the multi-part mac80211
part in the original book; neither of those were handled by the
automatic pandoc conversion.
Fix errors that showed up, resulting in a much nicer rendering,
at least for the interface combinations documentation.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Now that the files at Documentation/development-process/
were converted to ReST, make create a book at Sphinx.
As we'll have other books related to the development process,
we'll add it as a sub-book.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
We don't need to keep it as a single large file anymore; split it up so
that it is easier to manage and the individual sections can be read
directly as plain files.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
This directory will be a collecting point for documentation oriented around
development tools. As a step toward ordering Documentation/ it's a small
one, but we have to start somewhere...
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Add a index if only a sub-folder is build e.g.::
make SPHINXDIRS=media cleandocs htmldocs
BTW: removed dead search link in the top-index file
Signed-off-by: Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@darmarIT.de>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
With the media/conf.py, and media/index.rst the media folder can be
build and distributed stand-alone.
Signed-off-by: Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@darmarIT.de>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Merge drm updates from Dave Airlie:
"This is the main drm pull request for 4.8.
I'm down with a cold at the moment so hopefully this isn't in too bad
a state, I finished pulling stuff last week mostly (nouveau fixes just
went in today), so only this message should be influenced by illness.
Apologies to anyone who's major feature I missed :-)
Core:
Lockless GEM BO freeing
Non-blocking atomic work
Documentation changes (rst/sphinx)
Prep for new fencing changes
Simple display helpers
Master/auth changes
Register/unregister rework
Loads of trivial patches/fixes.
New stuff:
ARM Mali display driver (not the 3D chip)
sii902x RGB->HDMI bridge
Panel:
Support for new panels
Improved backlight support
Bridge:
Convert ADV7511 to bridge driver
ADV7533 support
TC358767 (DSI/DPI to eDP) encoder chip support
i915:
BXT support enabled by default
GVT-g infrastructure
GuC command submission and fixes
BXT workarounds
SKL/BKL workarounds
Demidlayering device registration
Thundering herd fixes
Missing pci ids
Atomic updates
amdgpu/radeon:
ATPX improvements for better dGPU power control on PX systems
New power features for CZ/BR/ST
Pipelined BO moves and evictions in TTM
GPU scheduler improvements
GPU reset improvements
Overclocking on dGPUs with amdgpu
Polaris powermanagement enabled
nouveau:
GK20A/GM20B volt and clock improvements.
Initial support for GP100/GP104 GPUs, GP104 will not yet support
acceleration due to NVIDIA having not released firmware for them as of yet.
exynos:
Exynos5433 SoC with IOMMU support.
vc4:
Shader validation for branching
imx-drm:
Atomic mode setting conversion
Reworked DMFC FIFO allocation
External bridge support
analogix-dp:
RK3399 eDP support
Lots of fixes.
rockchip:
Lots of small fixes.
msm:
DT bindings cleanups
Shrinker and madvise support
ASoC HDMI codec support
tegra:
Host1x driver cleanups
SOR reworking for DP support
Runtime PM support
omapdrm:
PLL enhancements
Header refactoring
Gamma table support
arcgpu:
Simulator support
virtio-gpu:
Atomic modesetting fixes.
rcar-du:
Misc fixes.
mediatek:
MT8173 HDMI support
sti:
ASOC HDMI codec support
Minor fixes
fsl-dcu:
Suspend/resume support
Bridge support
amdkfd:
Minor fixes.
etnaviv:
Enable GPU clock gating
hisilicon:
Vblank and other fixes"
* tag 'drm-for-v4.8' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~airlied/linux: (1575 commits)
drm/nouveau/gr/nv3x: fix instobj write offsets in gr setup
drm/nouveau/acpi: fix lockup with PCIe runtime PM
drm/nouveau/acpi: check for function 0x1B before using it
drm/nouveau/acpi: return supported DSM functions
drm/nouveau/acpi: ensure matching ACPI handle and supported functions
drm/nouveau/fbcon: fix font width not divisible by 8
drm/amd/powerplay: remove enable_clock_power_gatings_tasks from initialize and resume events
drm/amd/powerplay: move clockgating to after ungating power in pp for uvd/vce
drm/amdgpu: add query device id and revision id into system info entry at CGS
drm/amdgpu: add new definition in bif header
drm/amd/powerplay: rename smum header guards
drm/amdgpu: enable UVD context buffer for older HW
drm/amdgpu: fix default UVD context size
drm/amdgpu: fix incorrect type of info_id
drm/amdgpu: make amdgpu_cgs_call_acpi_method as static
drm/amdgpu: comment out unused defaults_staturn_pro static const structure to fix the build
drm/amdgpu: enable UVD VM only on polaris
drm/amdgpu: increase timeout of IB test
drm/amdgpu: add destroy session when generate VCE destroy msg.
drm/amd: fix deadlock of job_list_lock V2
...
The titles at the media books were misleading, and some books
were not numbered.
Rename the kAPI book to better reflect its contents, be more
consistent on the initial rst file for each book and better
name them.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Move the contents of the media section at
DocBooks/DocBook/device-drivers.tmpl to a new ReST book.
For now, the contents is kept as-is. Next patches will fix
the warnings and add cross-references that were removed due to
the conversion.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
The name of the subsystem is "media", and not "linux_tv". Also,
as we plan to add other stuff there in the future, let's
rename also the media uAPI book to media_uapi, to make it
clearer.
No functional changes.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
This is the restructuredText (reST) migration of the ``media``
DocBook-XML set from the linux_tv project.
Signed-off-by: Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@darmarIT.de>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Describe Sphinx, reStructuredText, the kernel-doc extension, the
kernel-doc structured documentation comments, etc.
The kernel-doc parts are based on kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt, by Tim
<twaugh@redhat.com>.
Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
This is the first step towards converting the DocBook gpu.tmpl to Sphinx
and reStructuredText, the new kernel documentation tool and markup.
Use Jon's "cheesy conversion script" in Documentation/sphinx/tmplcvt to
do the rough conversion. Do the manual edits in follow-up patches. Add a
new Documentation/gpu directories for the graphics related
documentation. (Hooray, now we can have directories based on topics
rather than tools under Documentation.)
We also won't remove the DocBook gpu.tmpl yet so it's easier to build
both and compare the results for parity.
Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/bc7b4f9ac037632e0c8469c079d21fad5eaa39a0.1466506505.git.jani.nikula@intel.com
Add basic configuration and makefile to build documentation from any
.rst files under Documentation using Sphinx. For starters, there's just
the placeholder index.rst.
At the top level Makefile, hook Sphinx documentation targets alongside
(but independent of) the DocBook toolchain, having both be run on the
various 'make *docs' targets.
All Sphinx processing is placed into Documentation/Makefile.sphinx. Both
that and the Documentation/DocBook/Makefile are now expected to handle
all the documentation targets, explicitly ignoring them if they're not
relevant for that particular toolchain. The changes to the existing
DocBook Makefile are kept minimal.
There is graceful handling of missing Sphinx and rst2pdf (which is
needed for pdf output) by checking for the tool and python module,
respectively, with informative messages to the user.
If the Read the Docs theme (sphinx_rtd_theme) is available, use it, but
otherwise gracefully fall back to the Sphinx default theme, with an
informative message to the user, and slightly less pretty HTML output.
Sphinx can now handle htmldocs, pdfdocs (if rst2pdf is available),
epubdocs and xmldocs targets. The output documents are written into per
output type subdirectories under Documentation/output.
Finally, you can pass options to sphinx-build using the SPHINXBUILD make
variable. For example, 'make SPHINXOPTS=-v htmldocs' for more verbose
output from Sphinx.
This is based on the original work by Jonathan Corbet, but he probably
wouldn't recognize this as his own anymore.
Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>