kernel/linux.git/Documentation/process, branch v6.1.168

Documentation: process: Also mention Sasha Levin as stable tree maintainer

2026-01-11T14:18:13+00:00

commit ba2457109d5b47a90fe565b39524f7225fc23e60 upstream. Sasha has also maintaining stable branch in conjunction with Greg since cb5d21946d2a2f ("MAINTAINERS: Add Sasha as a stable branch maintainer"). Mention him in 2.Process.rst. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet Message-ID: <20251022034336.22839-1-bagasdotme@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

docs: Set minimal gtags / GNU GLOBAL version to 6.6.5

2023-07-05T17:27:38+00:00

commit b230235b386589d8f0d631b1c77a95ca79bb0732 upstream. Kernel build now uses the gtags "-C (--directory)" option, available since GNU GLOBAL v6.6.5. Update the documentation accordingly. Signed-off-by: Ahmed S. Darwish Cc: Link: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-global/2020-09/msg00000.html Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Merge tag 'char-misc-6.1-rc6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc

2022-11-18T18:29:25+00:00

Pull char/misc driver fixes from Greg KH: "Here are some small char/misc and other driver fixes for 6.1-rc6 to resolve some reported problems. Included in here are: - iio driver fixes - binder driver fix - nvmem driver fix - vme_vmci information leak fix - parport fix - slimbus configuration fix - coreboot firmware bugfix - speakup build fix and crash fix All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported issues" * tag 'char-misc-6.1-rc6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc: (22 commits) firmware: coreboot: Register bus in module init nvmem: u-boot-env: fix crc32_data_offset on redundant u-boot-env slimbus: qcom-ngd: Fix build error when CONFIG_SLIM_QCOM_NGD_CTRL=y && CONFIG_QCOM_RPROC_COMMON=m docs: update mediator contact information in CoC doc slimbus: stream: correct presence rate frequencies nvmem: lan9662-otp: Fix compatible string binder: validate alloc->mm in ->mmap() handler parport_pc: Avoid FIFO port location truncation siox: fix possible memory leak in siox_device_add() misc/vmw_vmci: fix an infoleak in vmci_host_do_receive_datagram() speakup: replace utils' u_char with unsigned char speakup: fix a segfault caused by switching consoles tools: iio: iio_generic_buffer: Fix read size iio: imu: bno055: uninitialized variable bug in bno055_trigger_handler() iio: adc: at91_adc: fix possible memory leak in at91_adc_allocate_trigger() iio: adc: mp2629: fix potential array out of bound access iio: adc: mp2629: fix wrong comparison of channel iio: pressure: ms5611: changed hardcoded SPI speed to value limited iio: pressure: ms5611: fixed value compensation bug iio: accel: bma400: Ensure VDDIO is enable defore reading the chip ID. ...

docs: update mediator contact information in CoC doc

2022-11-10T17:45:11+00:00

Update mediator contact information in CoC interpretation document. Cc: Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221011171417.34286-1-skhan@linuxfoundation.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Merge tag 'docs-6.1-fixes' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

2022-11-01T22:11:42+00:00

Pull documentation fixes from Jonathan Corbet: "Four small fixes for the docs tree" * tag 'docs-6.1-fixes' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: docs/process/howto: Replace C89 with C11 Documentation: Fix spelling mistake in hacking.rst Documentation: process: replace outdated LTS table w/ link tracing/histogram: Update document for KEYS_MAX size

docs/process/howto: Replace C89 with C11

2022-10-24T17:27:51+00:00

Commit e8c07082a810 ("Kbuild: move to -std=gnu11") updated process/programming-language.rst, but failed to update process/howto.rst. Update howto.rst and resolve the inconsistency. Fixes: e8c07082a810 ("Kbuild: move to -std=gnu11") Signed-off-by: Akira Yokosawa Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Federico Vaga Cc: Alex Shi Cc: Hu Haowen Cc: Tsugikazu Shibata Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221015092201.32099-1-akiyks@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet

Documentation: process: replace outdated LTS table w/ link

2022-10-24T17:27:01+00:00

The existing table was a bit outdated. 3.16 was EOL in 2020. 4.4 was EOL in 2022. 5.10 is new in 2020. 5.15 is new in 2021. We'll see if 6.1 becomes LTS in 2022. Rather than keep this table updated, it does duplicate information from multiple kernel.org pages. Make one less duplication site that needs to be updated and simply refer to the kernel.org page on releases. Suggested-by: Tyler Hicks Suggested-by: Bagas Sanjaya Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Link: https://lore.kernel.org/stable/20221014171040.849726-1-ndesaulniers%40google.com Reviewed-by: Tyler Hicks (Microsoft) Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221014171040.849726-1-ndesaulniers@google.com Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet

docs: netdev: offer performance feedback to contributors

2022-10-24T10:03:44+00:00

Some of us gotten used to producing large quantities of peer feedback at work, every 3 or 6 months. Extending the same courtesy to community members seems like a logical step. It may be hard for some folks to get validation of how important their work is internally, especially at smaller companies which don't employ many kernel experts. The concept of "peer feedback" may be a hyperscaler / silicon valley thing so YMMV. Hopefully we can build more context as we go. Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

Merge tag 'docs-6.1-2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

2022-10-13T17:58:32+00:00

Pull documentation fixes from Jonathan Corbet: "A handful of relatively simple documentation fixes, plus a set of patches catching the Chinese translation up with the front-page rework" * tag 'docs-6.1-2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: Documentation: rtla: Correct command line example docs/zh_CN: add a man-pages link to zh_CN/index.rst docs/zh_CN: Rewrite the Chinese translation front page docs/zh_CN: add zh_CN/arch.rst docs/zh_CN: promote the title of zh_CN/process/index.rst docs/zh_CN: Update the translation of page_owner to 6.0-rc7 docs/zh_CN: Update the translation of ksm to 6.0-rc7 docs/howto: Replace abundoned URL of gmane.org Documentation: ubifs: Fix compression idiom Documentation/mm/page_owner.rst: delete frequently changing experimental data docs/zh_CN: Fix build warning docs: ftrace: Correct access mode

docs/howto: Replace abundoned URL of gmane.org

2022-10-10T19:09:10+00:00

Somehow, there remains a link to gmane.org, which stopped working in 2016, in howto.rst. Replace it with the one at lore.kernel.org. Do the same changes under translations/ as well. Signed-off-by: Akira Yokosawa Cc: Federico Vaga Cc: Alex Shi Cc: Yanteng Si Cc: Hu Haowen Reviewed-by: Alex Shi Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220930021936.26238-1-akiyks@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet