On Sphinx/ReST notation, ``foo`` means that foo will be will be
marked as inline literal, effectively making it to be presented
as a monospaced font.
As we want this document to be parsed by Sphinx, instead of using
"foo", use ``foo`` for the names that are literal, because it is an
usual typographic convention to use monospaced fonts for functions
and language commands on documents, and we're following such
convention on the other ReST books.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
- Fix all chapter identation;
- add c blocks where needed;
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
As discussed at linux-doc ML, the best is to keep all documents
backward compatible with Sphinx version 1.2, as it is the latest
version found on some distros like Debian.
All books currently support it.
Please notice that, while it mentions the eventual need of
XeLaTex and texlive to build pdf files, this is not a minimal
requirement, as one could just be interested on building html
documents. Also, identifying the minimal requirements for
texlive packages is not trivial, as each distribution seems to
use different criteria on grouping LaTex functionalities.
While here, update the current kernel version to 4.x.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
- Fix chapter identation inconsistencies;
- Convert table to ReST format;
- use the right tag for bullets;
- Fix bold emphasis;
- mark blocks with :: tags;
- use verbatim font for files;
- make Sphinx happy
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
This document is old: it is from Kernel v2.6.12 days.
Update it to the current status, and add a reference for the
linux-next tree.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
- use the correct markup to identify each section;
- Add some blank lines for Sphinx to properly interpret
the markups;
- Remove a blank space on some paragraphs;
- Fix the verbatim and bold markups;
- Cleanup the remaining errors to make Sphinx happy.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
This document is almost compliant with ReST notation, but some
small adjustments are needed to make it parse properly by
Sphinx (mostly, add blank lines where needed).
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.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>
Now that the documents were converted, rename them to .rst, as
this is needed by the Sphinx build logic.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
This document is on good shape for ReST: all it was needed was
to fix the section markups, add a toctree, convert the tables
and add a few code/quote blocks.
While not strictly required, I opted to use lowercase for
the titles, just like the other books that were converted
to Sphinx.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
As we're about to use those two markups, add them to the
theme style overrride.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Multi-cpu support is useful to improve the performance of kdump in
some cases. So add the description of enable multi-cpu support in
dump-capture kernel.
Signed-off-by: Zhou Wenjian <zhouwj-fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Xunlei Pang <xpang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
nr_cpus can help to save memory. So we should remind user of it.
Signed-off-by: Zhou Wenjian <zhouwj-fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Xunlei Pang <xpang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
This short series convers device-drivers.tmpl into the RST format, splits
it up, and sets up the result under Documentation/driver-api/. For added
fun, I've taken one top-level file (hsi.txt) and folded it into the
document as a way of showing the direction I'm thinking I would like things
to go. There is plenty more of this sort of work that could be done, to
say the least - this is just a beginning!
The formatted results can be seen at:
http://static.lwn.net/kerneldoc/driver-api/index.html
As part of the long-term task to turn Documentation/ into less of a horror
movie, I'd like to collect documentation of the driver-specific API here.
Arguably gpu/ and the media API stuff should eventually move here, though
we can discuss the color of that particular shed some other day.
Meanwhile, I'd appreciate comments on the general idea.
Handle signatures of function-like macros well. Don't try to deduce
arguments types of function-like macros.
Signed-off-by: Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@darmarIT.de>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
The self.indexnode's tuple has changed in sphinx version 1.4, from a
former 4 element tuple to a 5 element tuple.
e6a5a3a92e
Signed-off-by: Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@darmarIT.de>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Fixed a -> an typo.
Signed-off-by: Robert Foss <robert.foss@collabora.com>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
It never made sense to keep these documents together; move each into its
own file.
Drop the section numbering on hsi.txt on its way to its own file.
Suggested-by: Sebastian Reichel <sre@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
The HSI subsystem documentation was split across hsi.txt and the
device-drivers docbook. Now that the latter has been converted to Sphinx,
pull in the HSI document so that it's all in one place.
Acked-by: Sebastian Reichel <sre@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
This is a trivial fix to correct upper bound addresses to always be
inclusive. Previously, the majority of ranges specified were inclusive with a
small minority specifying an exclusive upper bound. This patch fixes this
inconsistency.
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
The driver that used the 'nodisconnect' parameter was removed in
commit 565bae6a4a ("[SCSI] 53c7xx: kill driver"). Related documentation
was cleaned up in commit f37a7238d3 ("[SCSI] 53c7xx: fix removal
fallout"), except for the remaining two mentions that are removed here.
Signed-off-by: Finn Thain <fthain@telegraphics.com.au>
Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
- The guide currently says to pad the structure to a multiple of
64-bits. This is not necessary in cases where the structure contains
no 64-bit types. Clarify this concept to avoid unnecessary padding.
- When using __u64 to hold user pointers, blindly trying to do a cast to
a void __user * may generate a warning on 32-bit systems about a cast
from an integer to a pointer of different size. There is a macro to
deal with this which hides an ugly double cast. Add a reference to
this macro.
Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
To build only the PDF of the media folder run::
make SPHINXDIRS=media pdfdocs
Signed-off-by: Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@darmarIT.de>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
This extends the method to build only sub-folders to the targets
"latexdocs" and "pdfdocs". To do so, a conf.py in the sub-folder is
required, where the latex_documents of the sub-folder are
defined. E.g. to build only gpu's PDF add the following to the
Documentation/gpu/conf.py::
+latex_documents = [
+ ("index", "gpu.tex", "Linux GPU Driver Developer's Guide",
+ "The kernel development community", "manual"),
+]
and run:
make SPHINXDIRS=gpu pdfdocs
Signed-off-by: Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@darmarIT.de>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
The setup() function of a Sphinx-extension can return a dictionary. This
is treated by Sphinx as metadata of the extension [1].
With metadata "parallel_read_safe = True" a extension is marked as
save for "parallel reading of source". This is needed if you want
build in parallel with N processes. E.g.:
make SPHINXOPTS=-j4 htmldocs
will no longer log warnings like:
WARNING: the foobar extension does not declare if it is safe for
parallel reading, assuming it isn't - please ask the extension author
to check and make it explicit.
Add metadata to extensions:
* kernel-doc
* flat-table
* kernel-include
[1] http://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/stable/extdev/#extension-metadata
Signed-off-by: Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@darmarIT.de>
Tested-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
From the old description people still can't get what's the exact
difference between nr_cpus and maxcpus. Especially in kdump kernel
nr_cpus is always suggested if it's implemented in the ARCH. The
reason is nr_cpus is used to limit the max number of possible cpu
in system, the sum of already plugged cpus and hot plug cpus can't
exceed its value. However maxcpus is used to limit how many cpus
are allowed to be brought up during bootup.
Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
We need adjustbox to allow adjusting the size of tables that
are bigger than the line width. There are quite a few of them
at the media books.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
When XeLaTeX is in interactive mode, it complains that
py@noticelength already exists. Rename it and declare it
only once to avoid such messages.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Instead of painting the box with gray, let's use a colored
box. IMHO, that makes easier to warn users about some issue
pointed by the Sphinx. It also matches to what we do already
with the HTML output.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
While the current implementation works well when using as a
paragraph, it doesn't work properly if inside a table. As we
have quite a few such cases, fix the logic to take the column
size into account.
PS.: I took the logic there from the latest version of Sphinx.sty
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Sphinx supports LaTeX output. Sometimes, it is interesting to
call it directly, instead of also generating a PDF. As it comes
for free, add a target for it.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
This is only one example, demonstrating the benefits of the patch
series. The CEC_DQEVENT ioctl is migrated to the sphinx c-domain and
referred by ":name: CEC_DQEVENT".
With this change the indirection using ":ref:`CEC_DQEVENT` is no longer
needed, we can refer the ioctl directly with ":c:func:`CEC_DQEVENT`". As
addition in the index, there is a entry "CEC_DQEVENT (C function)".
Signed-off-by: Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@darmarIT.de>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Moved the *duplicate C object description* warnings for function
declarations in the nitpicky mode. In nitpick mode, you can suppress
those warnings (e.g. ioctl) with::
nitpicky = True
nitpick_ignore = [
("c:func", "ioctl"),
]
See Sphinx documentation for the config values for ``nitpick`` and
``nitpick_ignore`` [1].
With this change all the ".. cpp:function:: int ioctl(..)" descriptions
(found in the media book) can be migrated to ".. c:function:: int
ioctl(..)", without getting any warnings. E.g.::
.. cpp:function:: int ioctl( int fd, int request, struct cec_event *argp )
.. c:function:: int ioctl( int fd, int request, struct cec_event *argp )
The main effect, is that we get those *CPP-types* back into Sphinx's C-
namespace and we need no longer to distinguish between c/cpp references,
when we refer a function like the ioctl.
[1] http://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/stable/config.html?highlight=nitpick#confval-nitpicky
Signed-off-by: Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@darmarIT.de>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Add option 'name' to the "c:function:" directive. With option 'name'
the ref-name of a function can be modified. E.g.::
.. c:function:: int ioctl( int fd, int request )
:name: VIDIOC_LOG_STATUS
The func-name (e.g. ioctl) remains in the output but the ref-name
changed from ``ioctl`` to ``VIDIOC_LOG_STATUS``. The index entry for
this function is also changed to ``VIDIOC_LOG_STATUS`` and the function
can now referenced by::
:c:func:`VIDIOC_LOG_STATUS`
Signed-off-by: Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@darmarIT.de>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Add a sphinx-extension to customize the sphinx c-domain. No functional
changes right yet, just the boilerplate code.
Signed-off-by: Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@darmarIT.de>
[ jc: coding-style tweak ]
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>
Fold the sparse document into the development tools set; no changes to the
text itself beyond formatting.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
