kernel/linux.git/README, branch v6.12.80

README: Fix spelling

2024-03-18T09:36:32+00:00

- ReStructured Text should be exactly reStructuredText - "reStructuredText" is ONE word, not two! according to https://docutils.sourceforge.io/rst.html Signed-off-by: Maki Hatano Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet Message-ID: <20240313100136.20424-1-Maki.Y.Hatano@gmail.com>

README: Fix spelling/capitalization

2024-02-12T23:42:13+00:00

- Fix spelling/capitalization s/Restructured/ReStructured/ Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240207122127.9182-1-thorsten.blum@toblux.com

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 The 00-INDEX files are supposed to give a summary of all files present in a directory, but these files are horribly out of date and their usefulness is brought into question.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A few years back it was mentioned that these files were no longer really needed, and they have since then grown further out of date, so perhaps it is time to just throw them out.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 List of outdated 00-INDEX: Documentation: (4/10) Documentation/sysctl: (0/1) Documentation/timers: (1/0) Documentation/blockdev: (3/1) Documentation/w1/slaves: (0/1)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

Docs: Added a pointer to the formatted docs to README

2018-03-21T15:02:53+00:00

Kernel.org nicely maintains an online copy of the formatted documentation; tell our users that it exists. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet

README: Improve documentation descriptions

2018-03-21T15:00:39+00:00

"This file" indeed was moved once, but at some point "this file", the top-level README, becomes a file in itself. Now that time has come :) Let's describe how things are, and suggest reading "this file" first, "this file" simply being a the admin-guide README file, not a file that was once moved. Signed-off-by: Martin Kepplinger Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet

README: add a new README file, pointing to the Documentation/

2016-10-24T10:12:35+00:00

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

docs-rst: create an user's manual book

2016-10-24T10:12:35+00:00

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

README: convert it to ReST markup

2016-10-24T10:12:35+00:00

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

README: Delete obsolete i386 info + update arch/i386/ paths

2016-08-14T18:24:56+00:00

Support for i386 was removed in v3.8, delete the paragraph that says processor types above 386 won't work on that architecture. It's obsolete information and potentially confusing. Also change a couple of "arch/i386/" paths to one that exists now, using "arch/x86/" instead. Signed-off-by: Øyvind A. Holm Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet

README: remove trailing whitespace

2016-04-15T21:38:17+00:00

Signed-off-by: Diego Viola Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet