linux/Documentation/index.rst
Jonathan Corbet 0c7b4366f1 docs: Rewrite the front page
The front page is the entry point to the documentation, especially for
people who read it online.  It's a big mess of everything we could think to
toss into it.  Rewrite the page with an eye toward simplicity and making it
easy for readers to get going toward what they really want to find.

This is only a beginning, but it makes our docs more approachable than
before.

Acked-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: David Vernet <void@manifault.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220927160559.97154-3-corbet@lwn.net
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2022-09-29 12:55:06 -06:00

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.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
.. The Linux Kernel documentation master file, created by
sphinx-quickstart on Fri Feb 12 13:51:46 2016.
You can adapt this file completely to your liking, but it should at least
contain the root `toctree` directive.
.. _linux_doc:
The Linux Kernel documentation
==============================
This is the top level of the kernel's documentation tree. Kernel
documentation, like the kernel itself, is very much a work in progress;
that is especially true as we work to integrate our many scattered
documents into a coherent whole. Please note that improvements to the
documentation are welcome; join the linux-doc list at vger.kernel.org if
you want to help out.
Working with the development community
--------------------------------------
The essential guides for interacting with the kernel's development
community and getting your work upstream.
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 1
process/development-process
process/submitting-patches
Code of conduct <process/code-of-conduct>
maintainer/index
All development-process docs <process/index>
Internal API manuals
--------------------
Manuals for use by developers working to interface with the rest of the
kernel.
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 1
core-api/index
driver-api/index
subsystem-apis
Locking in the kernel <locking/index>
Development tools and processes
-------------------------------
Various other manuals with useful information for all kernel developers.
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 1
process/license-rules
doc-guide/index
dev-tools/index
dev-tools/testing-overview
kernel-hacking/index
trace/index
fault-injection/index
livepatch/index
User-oriented documentation
---------------------------
The following manuals are written for *users* of the kernel — those who are
trying to get it to work optimally on a given system and application
developers seeking information on the kernel's user-space APIs.
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 1
admin-guide/index
The kernel build system <kbuild/index>
admin-guide/reporting-issues.rst
User-space tools <tools/index>
userspace-api/index
Firmware-related documentation
------------------------------
The following holds information on the kernel's expectations regarding the
platform firmwares.
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 1
firmware-guide/index
devicetree/index
Architecture-agnostic documentation
-----------------------------------
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 1
asm-annotations
Architecture-specific documentation
-----------------------------------
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 2
arch
Other documentation
-------------------
There are several unsorted documents that don't seem to fit on other parts
of the documentation body, or may require some adjustments and/or conversion
to ReStructured Text format, or are simply too old.
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 1
staging/index
Translations
------------
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 2
translations/index
Indices and tables
==================
* :ref:`genindex`