kernel/linux.git/Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst, branch v5.19

Drop some straggling mentions of gcc-4.9 as being stale

2021-09-13T17:29:44+00:00

Fix up the admin-guide README file to the new gcc-5.1 requirement, and remove a stale comment about gcc support for the __assume_aligned__ attribute. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Documentation: admin-guide: Update kvm/xen config option

2021-02-04T21:47:40+00:00

Since commit 9bba03d4473d ("kconfig: remove 'kvmconfig' and 'xenconfig' shorthands") kvm/xen config shortcuts are not available anymore. Update the file to reflect how they should be used, with the full filename. Signed-off-by: André Almeida Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210130014547.123006-2-andrealmeid@collabora.com Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet

docs: make reporting-bugs.rst obsolete

2020-12-08T17:33:27+00:00

Make various places which point to Documentation/admin-guide/reporting-bugs.rst point to Documentation/admin-guide/reporting-issues.rst instead. That document is brand new and as of now is not completely finished. But even at this stage it's a lot more helpful and accurate than reporting-bugs.rst. Hence also add a note to reporting-bugs.rst, telling people they're better off reading reporting-issues.rst instead. reporting-bugs.rst is scheduled for removal once reporting-issues.rst is considered ready. Signed-off-by: Thorsten Leemhuis Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/3df7c2d16de112b47bb6e6158138608e78562bf5.1607063223.git.linux@leemhuis.info Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet

Documentation/admin-guide: README & svga: remove use of "rdev"

2020-09-24T16:50:31+00:00

"rdev" is considered antiquated, ancient, archaic, obsolete, deprecated {choose any or all}. Remove use of "rdev" and "vidmode" (a symlink to rdev) in admin-guide/README.rst and admin-guide/svga.rst. "rdev" was removed from util-linux in 2010: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/util-linux/util-linux.git/commit/?id=a3e40c14651fccf18e7954f081e601389baefe3f Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap Acked-by: Martin Mares Cc: Karel Zak Cc: Paul Gortmaker Cc: Jens Axboe Cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org Cc: Alexander Viro Cc: Martin Mares Cc: linux-video@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200918015640.8439-2-rdunlap@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet

Documentation: update for gcc 4.9 requirement

2020-07-08T19:28:44+00:00

Update Documentation for the gcc v4.9 upgrade requirement. Fixes: 5429ef62bcf3 ("compiler/gcc: Raise minimum GCC version for kernel builds to 4.8") Fixes: 6ec4476ac825 ("Raise gcc version requirement to 4.9") Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap Acked-by: Jonathan Corbet Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

streamline_config.pl: add LMC_KEEP to preserve some kconfigs

2020-05-13T01:33:54+00:00

Sometimes it is useful to preserve batches of configs when making localmodconfig. For example, I usually don't want any usb and fs modules to be disabled. Now we can do it by: $ make LMC_KEEP="drivers/usb:fs" localmodconfig Signed-off-by: Changbin Du Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada

docs: kbuild: convert docs to ReST and rename to *.rst

2019-06-14T20:21:21+00:00

The kbuild documentation clearly shows that the documents there are written at different times: some use markdown, some use their own peculiar logic to split sections. Convert everything to ReST without affecting too much the author's style and avoiding adding uneeded markups. The conversion is actually: - add blank lines and identation in order to identify paragraphs; - fix tables markups; - add some lists markups; - mark literal blocks; - adjust title markups. At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet

Documentation: fix admin-guide/README.rst minimum gcc version requirement

2019-02-22T15:36:16+00:00

Fix minimum gcc version as specified in Documentation/process/changes.rst. Suggested-by: Matthew Wilcox Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet

Documentation: change linux-4.x references to 5.x

2019-02-17T22:41:05+00:00

As linux-5.0.x is coming up soon, the documentation should match, in particular the README.rst file, so change all 4.x references accordingly. There was a mix of lowercase and uppercase X here, which I changed to using lowercase consistently. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet

Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/

2018-09-09T21:08:58+00:00

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 Acked-by: "Paul E. McKenney" Just-do-it-by: Steven Rostedt Reviewed-by: Jens Axboe Acked-by: Paul Moore Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Acked-by: Mark Brown Acked-by: Mike Rapoport Cc: [Almost everybody else] Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet