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Jonathan Corbet 9d2cccdd6c Merge branch 'doc-tweaks' into docs-next
The creation of the admin and process guides is a great thing, but, without
care, we risk replacing a messy docs directory with a few messy Sphinx
books.  In an attempt to head that off and show what I'm thinking, here's a
set of tweaks that, I think, make the existing Sphinx-formatted docs a bit
more accessible.
2016-10-27 17:47:58 -06:00
Oliver Neukum 2797cd03f5 USB: update intro of documentation
It does no good to mention The 2.4 kernel series and neglect
USB 3.x and XHCI. Also with type C and micro/mini USB we better
not talk about the shape of connectors.

Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.com>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-10-27 17:01:25 -06:00
Jonathan Corbet 67972a539e docs: Add a warning to applying-patches.rst
This is ancient stuff and we don't do things this way anymore.  In the
absence of simply deleting the document, at least add a warning to it.

Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-10-27 16:38:29 -06:00
Jonathan Corbet 31b24bee33 docs: add a warning to submitting-drivers.rst
This is crufty stuff and should maybe just be deleted, but I'm not quite
ready to do that yet.

Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-10-27 16:38:06 -06:00
Jonathan Corbet be4612447b docs: Collapse the process guide TOC
I believe this makes the page as a whole more approachable.

Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-10-27 16:37:55 -06:00
Jonathan Corbet 89edeedd61 docs: Tweak submitting-patches.rst formatting
The main goal here was to get the subsections to show in the TOC as they do
for all the other documents.  Also call out the DCO in the section title
since it's important.

Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-10-27 16:37:35 -06:00
Jonathan Corbet 9b4ebd98da docs: Apply some basic organization to the process guide
Put like documents together, with the essential ones at the top, and split
the TOC into sections.

Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-10-27 16:37:11 -06:00
Jonathan Corbet 5700d19748 docs: Get rid of the "basic profiling" guide
The document has not been touched in over 11 years and doesn't reflect how
profiling is done in the perf era.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-10-27 16:36:50 -06:00
Jonathan Corbet 2c79dcafd8 docs: Get rid of the badRAM guide
The last release of this tool was for 2.6.28; it's hard to see how it has
any relevance to current kernels.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-10-27 16:36:26 -06:00
Jonathan Corbet 7358bb2f32 docs: Clean up and organize the admin guide a bit
The admin guide is a good start, but it's time to turn it into something
better than an unordered blob of files.  This is a first step in that
direction.  The TOC has been split up and annotated, the guides have been
reordered, and minor tweaks have been applied to a few of them.

One consequence of splitting up the TOC is that we don't really want to use
:numbered: anymore, since the count resets every time and there doesn't
seem to be a way to change that.  Eventually we probably want to group the
documents into sub-books, at which point we can go back to a single TOC,
but it's probably early to do that.

Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-10-27 16:36:06 -06:00
Jonathan Corbet 555af62431 docs: retitle the kernel-documentation.rst
Let's make the title of this document (which shows up in the top page)
better describe its contents.

Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-10-27 16:34:58 -06:00
Jonathan Corbet b51208d41c docs: Tweak the top-level Sphinx page
This will be the initial landing point for readers, so give them a bit of
introductory material.  Also split the TOC into area-specific chunks to
make the whole thing a bit more approachable.

Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-10-27 16:33:36 -06:00
Markus Heiser fdd91a3dfa doc-rst: build PDF of 80211 and gpu sub-project
This allows to build PDF of only the sub-projects, which reduce the
roundtrip compared to build the PDF from the main documentation.

Signed-off-by: Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@darmarit.de>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-10-26 17:25:17 -06:00
Markus Heiser 6f2ec3a9d5 doc-rst: include index only in subproject AND html
The index should only be included if the build of the sub-folder is done
with the html-builder (HTML output).

Signed-off-by: Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@darmarit.de>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-10-26 17:25:08 -06:00
Markus Heiser 241a8021c6 doc-rst: make driver-api folder buildable stand-alone
Add minimal conf.py makes the driver-api folder buildable
stand-alone. To build only this folder run::

  make SPHINXDIRS=driver-api htmldocs
  make SPHINXDIRS=driver-api pdfdocs

Signed-off-by: Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@darmarit.de>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-10-26 17:25:00 -06:00
Markus Heiser c289312f96 doc-rst: make dev-tools folder buildable stand-alone
Add minimal conf.py and moved dev-tools/tools.rst to dev-tools/index.rst
makes the dev-tools folder buildable stand-alone. To build only this
folder run::

  make SPHINXDIRS=dev-tools htmldocs
  make SPHINXDIRS=dev-tools pdfdocs

Signed-off-by: Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@darmarit.de>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-10-26 17:24:54 -06:00
Jonathan Corbet 9e1f08607f Merge branch 'mauro-books' into docs-next
Merge Mauro's massive patch series creating the process and admin-guide
books.  I think there's a lot of stuff to clean up here, but there's no
point in holding things up for that.

Mauro sez:

This patch series continues the efforts of converting the Linux Kernel
documentation to Sphinx.

It contains text to ReST conversion of several files under Documentation,
and a few ones under the main dir (README, REPORTING-BUGS).

All patches on this series can be found on my development tree:
	https://git.linuxtv.org/mchehab/experimental.git/log/?h=lkml-books-v2

The Kernel docs html output after this series can be seen at:
	https://mchehab.fedorapeople.org/kernel_docs/
2016-10-25 18:05:23 -06:00
Igor Vuk bb118c56fd Documentation: cpu-hotplug: Fix typos
Fix some minor spelling errors and capitalization issues.

Signed-off-by: Igor Vuk <parcijala@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-10-25 17:07:52 -06:00
SeongJae Park 7b855a120b locking/Doc/ko_KR: Clarify limited control-dependency scope
This commit applies upstream change, commit ebff09a6ff
("locking/Documentation: Clarify limited control-dependency scope"), to
Korean translation.

Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj38.park@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-10-25 16:56:58 -06:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 3cbd4b543b Documentation/00-INDEX: remove legacy media directories
The dvb/ and video4linux/ dirs were removed, as now, all media
documentation is under media/.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 6bef44b9b9 README: add a new README file, pointing to the Documentation/
As we moved the real README file to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst,
let's add a replacement, pointing to it, and giving the main directions
about documentation.

In the future, perhaps it would be worth to move the contents
of Documentation/00-Index into this README.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 08a9a8d44c doc: re-add CodingStyle and SubmittingPatches
Those files got moved to Documentation/process, but as they're very
well known files, add pointers to their new locations.

PS.: I opted to not merge this patch with the previous one
in order to make the diff of the previous one more consistent,
as it will show only renames.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 8c27ceff36 docs: fix locations of several documents that got moved
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>
2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 9d85025b04 docs-rst: create an user's manual book
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>
2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 186128f753 docs-rst: add documents to development-process
Add several documents to the development-process ReST book.

As we don't want renames, use symlinks instead, keeping those
documents on their original place.

Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 0e4f07a65f docs: rename development-process/ to process/
As we'll type this a lot, after adding CodingStyle & friends,
let's rename the directory name to a shorter one.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 44b10006a9 README: convert it to ReST markup
Adjust the readme file for it to use the ReST markup:

- add chapter/section markups;
- use ``foo`` for commands;
- use :: for verbatim and script blocks;
- replace unsupported markup _foo_ by **foo**;
- add cross-references to other ReST files;
- use lower case on the section titles, to match other ReST files.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab afeb000e1a REPORTING-BUGS: convert to ReST markup
- add a title to the document;
- use :: before verbatim blocks;
- add blank lines where required;
- use protocol for URL references;
- use a verbatim block for the bugs template;
- add cross references to SecurityBugs.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 8c287de37b Documentation/CodeOfConflict: convert to ReST
Fix ReST notation for a bullet item

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 35a1beb9c4 Documentation/parport.txt: fix table to show on LaTeX
Sphinx doesn't like nested tables on the LaTex output.

So, change the table there to be displayed properly at
the PDF output.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 9c27d77d99 Documentation/volatile-considered-harmful.txt: convert to ReST markup
- Fix document section markups;
- use quote blocks where needed;
- adjust spaces and blank lines;
- add it to the development-processs book.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 27641b953c Documentation/VGA-softcursor.txt: convert to ReST markup
- Fix document title;
- use quote blocks where needed;
- use monotonic fonts for config options and file names;
- adjust whitespaces and blank lines;
- add it to the user's book.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 77514391ee Documentation/unicode.txt: convert it to ReST markup
Probably, unicode is something that we might remove from the
docs, as all modern systems support it. Yet, this chapter
is fun, as it mentions support for the Klington fictional
charset ;)

On the other hand, I bet all other OS user manuals
explicit mention unicode support.

So, convert it to ReST and include it at the user's book.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab c8956bb7dd Documentation/sysrq.txt: convert to ReST markup
- Fix document title;
- use a table for the valid commands;
- use quote blocks where needed;
- use monotonic fonts for config options and file names;
- adjust whitespaces and blank lines;
- add it to the user's book.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 3177ae4a10 Documentation/sysfs-rules.txt: convert it to ReST markup
- Fix document title;
- use quote blocks where needed;
- use monotonic fonts for config options and file names;
- adjust whitespaces and blank lines;
- add it to the user's book.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab b2777b650c Documentation/ramoops.txt: convert it to ReST format
- Fix document title;
- use quote blocks where needed;
- use monotonic fonts for config options and file names;
- adjust whitespaces and blank lines;
- add it to the user's book.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab e095f0711b Documentation/parport.txt: convert to ReST markup
- Add a document title;
- use quote blocks where needed;
- convert parameters to a nested table;
- use monotonic fonts for config options and file names;
- adjust whitespaces and blank lines;
- replace _foo_ by **foo**;
- add it to the user's book.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 9f4b9ec63c Documentation/oops-tracing.txt: convert to ReST markup
- Add a document title;
- use .. note:: markup;
- use quote blocks where needed;
- use monotonic fonts for config options and file names;
- adjust whitespaces and blank lines;
- replace _foo_ by **foo**;
- while here, remove whitespaces at the end of paragraph;
- add it to the user's book.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 503c5bf9fa Documentation/java.txt: convert to ReST markup
- Fix document title;
- use quote blocks where needed;
- use monotonic fonts for config options and file names;
- adjust whitespaces and blank lines;
- add it to the user's book.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 9cdda3d23b Documentation/mono.txt: convert to ReST markup
- Fix document title;
- use quote blocks where needed;
- use .. note:: for notes;
- use monotonic fonts for config options and file names;
- adjust whitespaces and blank lines;
- add it to the user's book.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 94e980cc45 Documentation/module-signing.txt: convert to ReST markup
- Fix identatio for the document title;
- remove its index;
- create a table for hash algorithm to be used;
- use quote blocks where needed;
- use monotonic fonts for parameters;
- adjust whitespaces and blank lines;
- Fix case on section titles;
- add it to the user's book.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab aeb04e52f1 Documentation/md.txt: Convert to ReST markup
- add a title for the document;
- convert some parameters to tables;
- use quote blocks where needed;
- use monotonic fonts for parameters;
- adjust whitespaces and blank lines;
- add it to the user's book.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 9a11e15381 Documentation/magic-number.txt: convert it to ReST markup
- add a title for the document;
- convert the table;
- use quote block for the changelog;
- use monotonic fonts for file names;
- adjust whitespaces and blank lines;
- add it to the user's book.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 8887addef5 Documentation/init.txt: convert to ReST markup
- use a quote blocks where needed;
- use ``foo`` for monotonic;
- adjust whitespaces and blank lines;
- fix the second list (that starts with 0, instead of A)
- add it to the user's book.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 5d0ad55378 Documentation/initrd.txt: convert to ReST markup
- use a quote blocks where needed;
- fix the chapter/section/subsection markups;
- use ``foo`` for monotonic;
- use .. note:: for /sbin/init file permissions;
- adjust whitespaces and blank lines;
- add it to the user's book.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 7d4e3517bd Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt: convert it to ReST markup
- use a quote blocks where needed;
- fix the chapter/section/subsection markups;
- use ``foo`` for monotonic;
- use .. note:: for the line-range note;
- cleanup whitespaces;
- add it to the user's book.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab d9f92f9f9d Documentation/devices.rst: convert it to ReST markup
- use a quote block for the big device major/minor list;
- use tables for the other device tables;
- fix the chapter/section/subsection markups;
- use ``foo`` for monotonic;
- use .. attention:: for the attention note to developers;
- use cross-references where needed;
- cleanup whitespaces;
- add it to the user's book.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 953ab835a9 Documentation/BUG-HUNTING: convert to ReST markup
- Add a document title and remove its own index;
- use monotonic fonts for paths;
- use quote blocks where needed;
- adjust/use spaces to properly format paragraphs;
- add it to the user book.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 8e7fbec662 Documentation/braille-console: convert it to ReST markup
- Fix identation for the document title;
- use monotonic fonts for paths;
- use quote blocks where needed;
- adjust spaces to properly format paragraphs;
- use :menuselection: and :kbd: for the menu item and keys;
- point too the right item at the menu;
- add it to the user book.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab c2ffd5dafa Documentation/serial-console.txt: convert it to ReST markup
- Fix identation for the document title;
- use monotonic fonts for paths;
- use quote blocks where needed;
- adjust spaces to properly format paragraphs;
- use :menuselection: for the menu item;
- add it to the user book.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00