Kernel.org nicely maintains an online copy of the formatted documentation;
tell our users that it exists.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
"This file" indeed was moved once, but at some point "this file", the
top-level README, becomes a file in itself. Now that time has come :)
Let's describe how things are, and suggest reading "this file" first,
"this file" simply being a the admin-guide README file, not a file that
was once moved.
Signed-off-by: Martin Kepplinger <martink@posteo.de>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
I think we need to soften the language a bit. It might scare folks
off, especially the:
We prefer to fully disclose the bug as soon as possible.
which is not really the case. Linus says:
It's not full disclosure, it's not coordinated disclosure,
and it's not "no disclosure". It's more like just "timely
open fixes".
I changed a bit of the wording in here, but mostly to remove the word
"disclosure" since it seems to mean very specific things to people
that we do not mean here.
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Alan Cox <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
This converts the plain text documentation to reStructuredText format and
add it into Sphinx TOC tree. No essential content change.
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
This converts the plain text documentation to reStructuredText format and
add it into Sphinx TOC tree. No essential content change.
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
This converts the plain text documentation to reStructuredText format and
add it into Sphinx TOC tree. No essential content change.
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
This converts the plain text documentation to reStructuredText format and
add it into Sphinx TOC tree. No essential content change.
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
This converts the plain text documentation to reStructuredText format and
add it into Sphinx TOC tree. No essential content change.
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
This converts the plain text documentation to reStructuredText format and
add it into Sphinx TOC tree. No essential content change.
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
This converts the plain text documentation to reStructuredText format and
add it into Sphinx TOC tree. No essential content change.
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
This converts the plain text documentation to reStructuredText format and
add it into Sphinx TOC tree. No essential content change.
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
This converts the plain text documentation to reStructuredText format and
add it into Sphinx TOC tree. No essential content change.
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
This converts the plain text documentation to reStructuredText format and
add it into Sphinx TOC tree. No essential content change.
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
This converts the plain text documentation to reStructuredText format and
add it into Sphinx TOC tree. No essential content change.
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
This converts the plain text documentation to reStructuredText format and
add it into Sphinx TOC tree. No essential content change.
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
This converts the plain text documentation to reStructuredText format and
add it into Sphinx TOC tree. No essential content change.
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
This converts the plain text documentation to reStructuredText format and
add it into Sphinx TOC tree. No essential content change.
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Add ftrace-uses.rst into Sphinx TOC tree. Few format issues are fixed.
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
This converts the plain text documentation to reStructuredText format and
add it to Sphinx TOC tree. This documentation is not synced with current
code, so mark it as out of date.
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
This just add a index.rst for trace subsystem. More docs will
be added later.
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Add my name to kernel driver statement.
Signed-off-by: Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@iki.fi>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
When Co-Developed-by tag was added, docs were only added to
Documention/process/5.Posting.rst and were not added to
Documention/process/submitting-patches.rst
Add documentation to Documention/process/submitting-patches.rst
Signed-off-by: Tobin C. Harding <me@tobin.cc>
[jc: tweaked commas in the subheading]
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Sphinx 1.7 removed sphinx.util.compat.Directive so people
who have upgraded cannot build the documentation. Switch to
docutils.parsers.rst.Directive which has been available since
docutils 0.5 released in 2009.
Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1083694
Co-developed-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Acked-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Right now, the description of the rapidio sysfs interfaces is in
Documentation/rapidio/sysfs.txt. Since these are a part of the ABI, they
should be in Documentation/ABI along with the rest.
Signed-off-by: Aishwarya Pant <aishpant@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Alexandre Bounine <alexandre.bounine@idt.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Add documentation for sysfs interface of adp8860 series backlight
devices by reading through code and git commits.
Signed-off-by: Aishwarya Pant <aishpant@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Michael Hennerich <michael.hennerich@analog.com>
Acked-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Add documentation for sysfs interface of adp5520/adp5501 analog devices
backlight driver by reading code and looking through git commit logs.
Signed-off-by: Aishwarya Pant <aishpant@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Michael Hennerich <michael.hennerich@analog.com>
Acked-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Add documentation for sysfs interfaces of Texas Instruments lm3639
backlight + flash led driver chip by looking through git commits and
reading code.
Signed-off-by: Aishwarya Pant <aishpant@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Documentation has been compiled from git logs and by reading through
code.
Signed-off-by: Aishwarya Pant <aishpant@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Add documentation for core and hardware specific infiniband interfaces.
The descriptions have been collected from git commit logs, reading
through code and data sheets. Some drivers have incomplete doc and are
annotated with the comment '[to be documented]'.
Signed-off-by: Aishwarya Pant <aishpant@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Hal Rosenstock <hal@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Documentation has been compiled from git commit logs and descriptions in
Documentation/aoe/aoe.txt. This should be useful for scripting and
tracking changes in the ABI.
Signed-off-by: Aishwarya Pant <aishpant@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Document sysfs attributes of s6e63m0 lcd panel driver by looking through
git logs and reading code.
Signed-off-by: Aishwarya Pant <aishpant@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Clean up the sysfs documentation such that it is in the same format as
described in Documentation/ABI/README. Mainly, the patch moves the
attribute names to the 'What:' field. This might be useful for scripting
and tracking changes in the ABI.
Signed-off-by: Aishwarya Pant <aishpant@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Currently there is no automated checking for kernel-doc comments except
running 'kernel-doc -v -none <filename>'. Mention the possibility to run
kernel-doc to verify formatting of the comments in the kernel-doc guide.
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Move the _if_ outside the verbatim string.
Make key ring name as a verbatim string.
Signed-off-by: Philipp Hahn <hahn@univention.de>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Commit d3bfe84129 changed the name but did
not update the documentation.
Fixes: d3bfe84129
Signed-off-by: Philipp Hahn <hahn@univention.de>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
So once upon a time I set out to fix the problem reported by Tobin wherein
a literal block within a kerneldoc comment would be corrupted in
processing. On the way, though, I got annoyed at the way I have to learn
how kernel-doc works from the beginning every time I tear into it.
As a result, seven of the following eight patches just get rid of some dead
code and reorganize the rest - mostly turning the 500-line process_file()
function into something a bit more rational. Sphinx output is unchanged
after these are applied. Then, at the end, there's a tweak to stop messing
with literal blocks.
If anybody was unaware that I've not done any serious Perl since the
1990's, they will certainly understand that fact now.
Add the SPDX header while I'm in the neighborhood. The source itself just
says "GNU General Public License", but it also refers people to the COPYING
file for further information. Since COPYING says 2.0-only, that is what I
have put into the header.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
This patch fixes a warning during "make xmldocs"
Documentation/driver-api/slimbus.rst:93:
WARNING: Title underline too short.
Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Without this patch, the points 1-9 in the list are rendered as an HTML
blockquote containing a list, causing them to be indented further than
the rest of the list.
While at it, also fix the quotation marks around G and P.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Neuschäfer <j.neuschaefer@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
It helps to give some examples about how to use in-line
comments also when nested union/structs are present. So add it.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
The parser at kernel-doc rejects names with dots in the middle.
Fix it, in order to support nested structs/unions.
Tested-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
We want to give some examples about how to do in-line comments
for nested structs. So, move it to be after nested structs/unions
chapter.
The section content was not changed on this patch.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Without ending with a ";", kernel-doc doesn't recognize it
as an struct, and it fails to parse the example.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
There's a missing */ at the end of Kernel docs example.
Even adding it, it will still produce 3 warnings:
example:33: warning: Function parameter or member 'bar' not described in 'nested_foobar'
example:33: warning: Function parameter or member 'bar.st1' not described in 'nested_foobar'
example:33: warning: Function parameter or member 'bar.st2' not described in 'nested_foobar'
So, make the example more complete and add the missing end
of comment there.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
When function description includes brackets after the function name as
suggested by Documentation/doc-guide/kernel-doc, the kernel-doc script
omits the function name from "Scanning doc for" report.
Extending match for identifier name with optional brackets fixes this
issue.
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Delete reference to the kernel-mentors mailing list because the mailing list no longer exists
Signed-off-by: Minghui Liu <minghui.liu.95@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
It can be useful to put code snippets into kerneldoc comments; that can be
done with the "::" operator at the end of a line like this::
if (desperate)
run_in_circles();
The ".. code-block::" directive can also be used to this end. kernel-doc
currently fails to understand these literal blocks and applies its normal
markup to them, which is then treated as literal by sphinx. The result is
unsightly markup instead of a useful code snippet.
Apply a hack to the output code to recognize literal blocks and avoid
performing any special markup on them. It's ugly, but that means it fits
in well with the rest of the script.
Reviewed-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Move STATE_INLINE and STATE_DOCBLOCK code out of process_file(), which now
actually fits on a single screen. Delete an unused variable and add a
couple of comments while I'm at it.
Reviewed-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
