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| author | Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> | 2016-10-27 01:45:29 +0300 |
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| committer | Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> | 2016-10-28 01:38:06 +0300 |
| commit | 31b24bee33572031632c33091bb73ed0e949c53a (patch) | |
| tree | b285d544169f2f7c017aa7e5a96c2c6350b4a466 | |
| parent | be4612447b3721a9a9f14ea5189217d69bc83078 (diff) | |
| download | linux-31b24bee33572031632c33091bb73ed0e949c53a.tar.xz | |
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>
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/process/submitting-drivers.rst | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/process/submitting-drivers.rst b/Documentation/process/submitting-drivers.rst index 0939d018c289..afb82ee0cbea 100644 --- a/Documentation/process/submitting-drivers.rst +++ b/Documentation/process/submitting-drivers.rst @@ -8,6 +8,14 @@ various kernel trees. Note that if you are interested in video card drivers you should probably talk to XFree86 (http://www.xfree86.org/) and/or X.Org (http://x.org/) instead. +.. note:: + + This document is old and has seen little maintenance in recent years; it + should probably be updated or, perhaps better, just deleted. Most of + what is here can be found in the other development documents anyway. + + Oh, and we don't really recommend submitting changes to XFree86 :) + Also read the Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst document. |