This is a respin with a wider audience (all that get_maintainer returned)
and I know this spams a *lot* of people. Not sure what would be the correct
way, so my apologies for ruining your inbox.
The 00-INDEX files are supposed to give a summary of all files present
in a directory, but these files are horribly out of date and their
usefulness is brought into question. Often a simple "ls" would reveal
the same information as the filenames are generally quite descriptive as
a short introduction to what the file covers (it should not surprise
anyone what Documentation/sched/sched-design-CFS.txt covers)
A few years back it was mentioned that these files were no longer really
needed, and they have since then grown further out of date, so perhaps
it is time to just throw them out.
A short status yields the following _outdated_ 00-INDEX files, first
counter is files listed in 00-INDEX but missing in the directory, last
is files present but not listed in 00-INDEX.
List of outdated 00-INDEX:
Documentation: (4/10)
Documentation/sysctl: (0/1)
Documentation/timers: (1/0)
Documentation/blockdev: (3/1)
Documentation/w1/slaves: (0/1)
Documentation/locking: (0/1)
Documentation/devicetree: (0/5)
Documentation/power: (1/1)
Documentation/powerpc: (0/5)
Documentation/arm: (1/0)
Documentation/x86: (0/9)
Documentation/x86/x86_64: (1/1)
Documentation/scsi: (4/4)
Documentation/filesystems: (2/9)
Documentation/filesystems/nfs: (0/2)
Documentation/cgroup-v1: (0/2)
Documentation/kbuild: (0/4)
Documentation/spi: (1/0)
Documentation/virtual/kvm: (1/0)
Documentation/scheduler: (0/2)
Documentation/fb: (0/1)
Documentation/block: (0/1)
Documentation/networking: (6/37)
Documentation/vm: (1/3)
Then there are 364 subdirectories in Documentation/ with several files that
are missing 00-INDEX alltogether (and another 120 with a single file and no
00-INDEX).
I don't really have an opinion to whether or not we /should/ have 00-INDEX,
but the above 00-INDEX should either be removed or be kept up to date. If
we should keep the files, I can try to keep them updated, but I rather not
if we just want to delete them anyway.
As a starting point, remove all index-files and references to 00-INDEX and
see where the discussion is going.
Signed-off-by: Henrik Austad <henrik@austad.us>
Acked-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Just-do-it-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Reviewed-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Acked-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Acked-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: [Almost everybody else]
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Add a label to the top of the file to allow cross-referencing.
Currently it's not possible to cross-reference this file from
Documentation/process/howto.rst because of the missing label.
Signed-off-by: Michael Rodin <michael-git@rodin.online>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
- Lots of work aligning Documentation/ABI with reality, done by Aishwarya
Pant.
- The trace documentation has been converted to RST by Changbin Du
- I thrashed up kernel-doc to deal with a parsing issue and to try to make
the code more readable. It's still a 20+-year-old Perl hack, though.
- Lots of other updates, typo fixes, and more.
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Merge tag 'docs-4.17' of git://git.lwn.net/linux
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
"There's been a fair amount of activity in Documentation/ this time
around:
- Lots of work aligning Documentation/ABI with reality, done by
Aishwarya Pant.
- The trace documentation has been converted to RST by Changbin Du
- I thrashed up kernel-doc to deal with a parsing issue and to try to
make the code more readable. It's still a 20+-year-old Perl hack,
though.
- Lots of other updates, typo fixes, and more"
* tag 'docs-4.17' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (82 commits)
Documentation/process: update FUSE project website
docs: kernel-doc: fix parsing of arrays
dmaengine: Fix spelling for parenthesis in dmatest documentation
dmaengine: Make dmatest.rst indeed reST compatible
dmaengine: Add note to dmatest documentation about supported channels
Documentation: magic-numbers: Fix typo
Documentation: admin-guide: add kvmconfig, xenconfig and tinyconfig commands
Input: alps - Update documentation for trackstick v3 format
Documentation: Mention why %p prints ptrval
COPYING: use the new text with points to the license files
COPYING: create a new file with points to the Kernel license files
Input: trackpoint: document sysfs interface
xfs: Change URL for the project in xfs.txt
char/bsr: add sysfs interface documentation
acpi: nfit: document sysfs interface
block: rbd: update sysfs interface
Documentation/sparse: fix typo
Documentation/CodingStyle: Add an example for braces
docs/vm: update 00-INDEX
kernel-doc: Remove __sched markings
...
Add kvmconfig, xenconfig and tinyconfig to the list of alternative
configuration commands. Descriptions are directly taken from the Makefile.
Signed-off-by: Martin Kepplinger <martink@posteo.de>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
A number of architecture ports are obsolete and getting dropped,
so we no longer want to track the respective features.
We already removed the lines for metag and mn10300, this does
the same edits for all the others.
For the remaining 21 architectures, this shows how many are known
to implement each given feature:
19 time/modern-timekeeping/arch-support.txt
19 time/clockevents/arch-support.txt
15 core/tracehook/arch-support.txt
14 core/generic-idle-thread/arch-support.txt
13 locking/lockdep/arch-support.txt
12 io/dma-api-debug/arch-support.txt
11 debug/kgdb/arch-support.txt
10 time/virt-cpuacct/arch-support.txt
9 debug/kretprobes/arch-support.txt
9 debug/kprobes/arch-support.txt
8 vm/THP/arch-support.txt
8 vm/pte_special/arch-support.txt
8 vm/numa-memblock/arch-support.txt
8 io/sg-chain/arch-support.txt
7 perf/kprobes-event/arch-support.txt
7 locking/rwsem-optimized/arch-support.txt
7 debug/gcov-profile-all/arch-support.txt
7 core/jump-labels/arch-support.txt
7 core/BPF-JIT/arch-support.txt
6 vm/ELF-ASLR/arch-support.txt
6 time/context-tracking/arch-support.txt
6 seccomp/seccomp-filter/arch-support.txt
6 debug/stackprotector/arch-support.txt
5 time/irq-time-acct/arch-support.txt
5 io/dma-contiguous/arch-support.txt
5 debug/uprobes/arch-support.txt
4 vm/ioremap_prot/arch-support.txt
4 time/arch-tick-broadcast/arch-support.txt
4 perf/perf-stackdump/arch-support.txt
4 perf/perf-regs/arch-support.txt
3 debug/KASAN/arch-support.txt
2 vm/PG_uncached/arch-support.txt
2 vm/huge-vmap/arch-support.txt
2 sched/numa-balancing/arch-support.txt
2 sched/membarrier-sync-core/arch-support.txt
2 locking/cmpxchg-local/arch-support.txt
2 debug/optprobes/arch-support.txt
2 debug/kprobes-on-ftrace/arch-support.txt
1 vm/TLB/arch-support.txt
1 locking/queued-spinlocks/arch-support.txt
1 locking/queued-rwlocks/arch-support.txt
1 debug/user-ret-profiler/arch-support.txt
0 lib/strncasecmp/arch-support.txt
Note that the list does not include riscv or nds32 yet, these still
need to be added.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
As explained by Michal Marek at https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/8/31/189
silentoldconfig has become a misnomer. It has become an internal interface
so remove it from "make help" and Documentation/ to stop confusing people
using it as seen for instance at
https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/835632 Don't remove it from
kconfig/Makefile yet not to break any (other) tool using it.
On the other hand, correct and expand its description in the help of
the (internal) scripts/kconfig/conf.c
Signed-off-by: Marc Herbert <marc.herbert@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Make admin-guide document refs valid.
Signed-off-by: Tom Saeger <tom.saeger@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
DocBook is mentioned several times at the documentation. Update
the obsolete references from it at the DocBook.
Acked-by: SeongJae Park <sj38.park@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
FTP services were shutdown some weeks ago, so the FTP URL
does not work anymore. Fix this by replacing it with
corresponding HTTPS URL.
Signed-off-by: Michael Heimpold <michael.heimpold@i2se.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
The AVR32 architecture support has been removed from the Linux kernel,
hence remove all references to it from Documentation.
Signed-off-by: Hans-Christian Noren Egtvedt <egtvedt@samfundet.no>
Signed-off-by: Håvard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@microchip.com>
Acked-by: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>
The previous patch renamed several files that are cross-referenced
along the Kernel documentation. Adjust the links to point to
the right places.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
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>
Henrik Austad