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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2018-12-29 22:21:49 +0300
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2018-12-29 22:21:49 +0300
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Merge tag 'docs-5.0' of git://git.lwn.net/linux
Pull documentation update from Jonathan Corbet: "A fairly normal cycle for documentation stuff. We have a new document on perf security, more Italian translations, more improvements to the memory-management docs, improvements to the pathname lookup documentation, and the usual array of smaller fixes. As is often the case, there are a few reaches outside of Documentation/ to adjust kerneldoc comments" * tag 'docs-5.0' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (38 commits) docs: improve pathname-lookup document structure configfs: fix wrong name of struct in documentation docs/mm-api: link slab_common.c to "The Slab Cache" section slab: make kmem_cache_create{_usercopy} description proper kernel-doc doc:process: add links where missing docs/core-api: make mm-api.rst more structured x86, boot: documentation whitespace fixup Documentation: devres: note checking needs when converting doc:it: add some process/* translations doc:it: fixes in process/1.Intro Documentation: convert path-lookup from markdown to resturctured text Documentation/admin-guide: update admin-guide index.rst Documentation/admin-guide: introduce perf-security.rst file scripts/kernel-doc: Fix struct and struct field attribute processing Documentation: dev-tools: Fix typos in index.rst Correct gen_init_cpio tool's documentation Document /proc/pid PID reuse behavior Documentation: update path-lookup.md for parallel lookups Documentation: Use "while" instead of "whilst" dmaengine: Add mailing list address to the documentation ...
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@@ -16,7 +16,8 @@ you should probably talk to XFree86 (http://www.xfree86.org/) and/or X.Org
Oh, and we don't really recommend submitting changes to XFree86 :)
-Also read the Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst document.
+Also read the :ref:`Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst <submittingpatches>`
+document.
Allocating Device Numbers
@@ -27,7 +28,8 @@ by the Linux assigned name and number authority (currently this is
Torben Mathiasen). The site is http://www.lanana.org/. This
also deals with allocating numbers for devices that are not going to
be submitted to the mainstream kernel.
-See Documentation/admin-guide/devices.rst for more information on this.
+See :ref:`Documentation/admin-guide/devices.rst <admin_devices>`
+for more information on this.
If you don't use assigned numbers then when your device is submitted it will
be given an assigned number even if that is different from values you may
@@ -117,7 +119,7 @@ PM support:
anything. For the driver testing instructions see
Documentation/power/drivers-testing.txt and for a relatively
complete overview of the power management issues related to
- drivers see Documentation/driver-api/pm/devices.rst.
+ drivers see :ref:`Documentation/driver-api/pm/devices.rst <driverapi_pm_devices>`.
Control:
In general if there is active maintenance of a driver by