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There are several files that I was unable to find a proper place for them, and 3 ones that are still in plain old text format. Let's place those stuff behind the carpet, as we'd like to keep the root directory clean. We can later discuss and move those into better places. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/11bd0d75e65a874f7c276a0aeab0fe13f3376f5f.1592203650.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
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.. The Linux Kernel documentation master file, created by
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sphinx-quickstart on Fri Feb 12 13:51:46 2016.
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You can adapt this file completely to your liking, but it should at least
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contain the root `toctree` directive.
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.. _linux_doc:
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The Linux Kernel documentation
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==============================
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This is the top level of the kernel's documentation tree. Kernel
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documentation, like the kernel itself, is very much a work in progress;
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that is especially true as we work to integrate our many scattered
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documents into a coherent whole. Please note that improvements to the
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documentation are welcome; join the linux-doc list at vger.kernel.org if
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you want to help out.
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Licensing documentation
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-----------------------
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The following describes the license of the Linux kernel source code
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(GPLv2), how to properly mark the license of individual files in the source
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tree, as well as links to the full license text.
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* :ref:`kernel_licensing`
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User-oriented documentation
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---------------------------
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The following manuals are written for *users* of the kernel — those who are
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trying to get it to work optimally on a given system.
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.. toctree::
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:maxdepth: 2
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admin-guide/index
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kbuild/index
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Firmware-related documentation
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------------------------------
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The following holds information on the kernel's expectations regarding the
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platform firmwares.
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.. toctree::
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:maxdepth: 2
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firmware-guide/index
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devicetree/index
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Application-developer documentation
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-----------------------------------
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The user-space API manual gathers together documents describing aspects of
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the kernel interface as seen by application developers.
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.. toctree::
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:maxdepth: 2
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userspace-api/index
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Introduction to kernel development
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----------------------------------
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These manuals contain overall information about how to develop the kernel.
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The kernel community is quite large, with thousands of developers
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contributing over the course of a year. As with any large community,
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knowing how things are done will make the process of getting your changes
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merged much easier.
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.. toctree::
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:maxdepth: 2
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process/index
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dev-tools/index
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doc-guide/index
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kernel-hacking/index
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trace/index
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maintainer/index
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fault-injection/index
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livepatch/index
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Kernel API documentation
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------------------------
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These books get into the details of how specific kernel subsystems work
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from the point of view of a kernel developer. Much of the information here
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is taken directly from the kernel source, with supplemental material added
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as needed (or at least as we managed to add it — probably *not* all that is
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needed).
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.. toctree::
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:maxdepth: 2
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driver-api/index
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core-api/index
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locking/index
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accounting/index
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block/index
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cdrom/index
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cpu-freq/index
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ide/index
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fb/index
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fpga/index
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hid/index
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i2c/index
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iio/index
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isdn/index
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infiniband/index
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leds/index
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netlabel/index
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networking/index
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pcmcia/index
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power/index
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target/index
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timers/index
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spi/index
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w1/index
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watchdog/index
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virt/index
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input/index
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hwmon/index
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gpu/index
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security/index
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sound/index
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crypto/index
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filesystems/index
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vm/index
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bpf/index
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usb/index
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PCI/index
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scsi/index
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misc-devices/index
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scheduler/index
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mhi/index
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Architecture-agnostic documentation
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-----------------------------------
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.. toctree::
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:maxdepth: 2
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asm-annotations
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Architecture-specific documentation
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-----------------------------------
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These books provide programming details about architecture-specific
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implementation.
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.. toctree::
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:maxdepth: 2
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arm/index
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arm64/index
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ia64/index
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m68k/index
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mips/index
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nios2/nios2
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openrisc/index
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parisc/index
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powerpc/index
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riscv/index
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s390/index
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sh/index
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sparc/index
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x86/index
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xtensa/index
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Filesystem Documentation
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------------------------
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The documentation in this section are provided by specific filesystem
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subprojects.
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.. toctree::
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:maxdepth: 2
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filesystems/ext4/index
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Other documentation
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-------------------
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There are several unsorted documents that don't seem to fit on other parts
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of the documentation body, or may require some adjustments and/or conversion
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to ReStructured Text format, or are simply too old.
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.. toctree::
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:maxdepth: 2
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staging/index
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Translations
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------------
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.. toctree::
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:maxdepth: 2
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translations/index
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Indices and tables
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==================
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* :ref:`genindex`
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