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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2024-01-12 06:46:52 +0300
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Merge tag 'docs-6.8' of git://git.lwn.net/linux
Pull documentation update from Jonathan Corbet: "Another moderately busy cycle for documentation, including: - The minimum Sphinx requirement has been raised to 2.4.4, following a warning that was added in 6.2 - Some reworking of the Documentation/process front page to, hopefully, make it more useful - Various kernel-doc tweaks to, for example, make it deal properly with __counted_by annotations - We have also restored a warning for documentation of nonexistent structure members that disappeared a while back. That had the delightful consequence of adding some 600 warnings to the docs build. A sustained effort by Randy, Vegard, and myself has addressed almost all of those, bringing the documentation back into sync with the code. The fixes are going through the appropriate maintainer trees - Various improvements to the HTML rendered docs, including automatic links to Git revisions and a nice new pulldown to make translations easy to access - Speaking of translations, more of those for Spanish and Chinese ... plus the usual stream of documentation updates and typo fixes" * tag 'docs-6.8' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (57 commits) MAINTAINERS: use tabs for indent of CONFIDENTIAL COMPUTING THREAT MODEL A reworked process/index.rst ring-buffer/Documentation: Add documentation on buffer_percent file Translated the RISC-V architecture boot documentation. Docs: remove mentions of fdformat from util-linux Docs/zh_CN: Fix the meaning of DEBUG to pr_debug() Documentation: move driver-api/dcdbas to userspace-api/ Documentation: move driver-api/isapnp to userspace-api/ Documentation/core-api : fix typo in workqueue Documentation/trace: Fixed typos in the ftrace FLAGS section kernel-doc: handle a void function without producing a warning scripts/get_abi.pl: ignore some temp files docs: kernel_abi.py: fix command injection scripts/get_abi: fix source path leak CREDITS, MAINTAINERS, docs/process/howto: Update man-pages' maintainer docs: translations: add translations links when they exist kernel-doc: Align quick help and the code MAINTAINERS: add reviewer for Spanish translations docs: ignore __counted_by attribute in structure definitions scripts: kernel-doc: Clarify missing struct member description ..
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@@ -15,49 +15,96 @@ to learn about how our community works. Reading these documents will make
it much easier for you to get your changes merged with a minimum of
trouble.
-Below are the essential guides that every developer should read.
+An introduction to how kernel development works
+-----------------------------------------------
+
+Read these documents first: an understanding of the material here will ease
+your entry into the kernel community.
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 1
- license-rules
howto
- code-of-conduct
- code-of-conduct-interpretation
development-process
submitting-patches
- handling-regressions
+ submit-checklist
+
+Tools and technical guides for kernel developers
+------------------------------------------------
+
+This is a collection of material that kernel developers should be familiar
+with.
+
+.. toctree::
+ :maxdepth: 1
+
+ changes
programming-language
coding-style
- maintainer-handbooks
maintainer-pgp-guide
email-clients
+ applying-patches
+ backporting
+ adding-syscalls
+ volatile-considered-harmful
+ botching-up-ioctls
+
+Policy guides and developer statements
+--------------------------------------
+
+These are the rules that we try to live by in the kernel community (and
+beyond).
+
+.. toctree::
+ :maxdepth: 1
+
+ license-rules
+ code-of-conduct
+ code-of-conduct-interpretation
+ contribution-maturity-model
kernel-enforcement-statement
kernel-driver-statement
+ stable-api-nonsense
+ stable-kernel-rules
+ management-style
+ researcher-guidelines
-For security issues, see:
+Dealing with bugs
+-----------------
+
+Bugs are a fact of life; it is important that we handle them properly.
+The documents below describe our policies around the handling of a couple
+of special classes of bugs: regressions and security problems.
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 1
+ handling-regressions
security-bugs
embargoed-hardware-issues
-Other guides to the community that are of interest to most developers are:
+Maintainer information
+----------------------
+
+How to find the people who will accept your patches.
+
+.. toctree::
+ :maxdepth: 1
+
+ maintainer-handbooks
+ maintainers
+
+Other material
+--------------
+
+Here are some other guides to the community that are of interest to most
+developers:
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 1
- changes
- stable-api-nonsense
- management-style
- stable-kernel-rules
- submit-checklist
kernel-docs
deprecated
- maintainers
- researcher-guidelines
- contribution-maturity-model
These are some overall technical guides that have been put here for now for
lack of a better place.
@@ -65,12 +112,7 @@ lack of a better place.
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 1
- applying-patches
- backporting
- adding-syscalls
magic-number
- volatile-considered-harmful
- botching-up-ioctls
clang-format
../arch/riscv/patch-acceptance
../core-api/unaligned-memory-access