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authorJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>2016-10-27 17:05:10 -0600
committerJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>2016-10-27 17:47:58 -0600
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Merge branch 'doc-tweaks' into docs-next
The creation of the admin and process guides is a great thing, but, without care, we risk replacing a messy docs directory with a few messy Sphinx books. In an attempt to head that off and show what I'm thinking, here's a set of tweaks that, I think, make the existing Sphinx-formatted docs a bit more accessible.
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/process/applying-patches.rst4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/process/changes.rst2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/process/index.rst41
-rw-r--r--Documentation/process/submitting-drivers.rst8
-rw-r--r--Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst16
5 files changed, 48 insertions, 23 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/process/applying-patches.rst b/Documentation/process/applying-patches.rst
index abd7dc7ae240..87825cf96f33 100644
--- a/Documentation/process/applying-patches.rst
+++ b/Documentation/process/applying-patches.rst
@@ -9,6 +9,10 @@ Original by:
Last update:
2016-09-14
+.. note::
+
+ This document is obsolete. In most cases, rather than using ``patch``
+ manually, you'll almost certainly want to look at using Git instead.
A frequently asked question on the Linux Kernel Mailing List is how to apply
a patch to the kernel or, more specifically, what base kernel a patch for
diff --git a/Documentation/process/changes.rst b/Documentation/process/changes.rst
index 22797a15dc24..56ce66114665 100644
--- a/Documentation/process/changes.rst
+++ b/Documentation/process/changes.rst
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
.. _changes:
-Minimal requerements to compile the Kernel
+Minimal requirements to compile the Kernel
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Intro
diff --git a/Documentation/process/index.rst b/Documentation/process/index.rst
index cddf580671e7..10aa6920709a 100644
--- a/Documentation/process/index.rst
+++ b/Documentation/process/index.rst
@@ -4,34 +4,51 @@
\renewcommand\thesubsection*
-Linux Kernel Development Documentation
-======================================
+Working with the kernel development community
+=============================================
-Contents:
+So you want to be a Linux kernel developer? Welcome! While there is a lot
+to be learned about the kernel in a technical sense, it is also important
+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.
.. toctree::
- :maxdepth: 2
+ :maxdepth: 1
howto
- changes
- coding-style
+ code-of-conflict
+ development-process
submitting-patches
+ coding-style
+ email-clients
+
+Other guides to the community that are of interest to most developers are:
+
+.. toctree::
+ :maxdepth: 1
+
+ changes
submitting-drivers
stable-api-nonsense
management-style
stable-kernel-rules
+ submit-checklist
kernel-docs
+
+These are some overall technical guides that have been put here for now for
+lack of a better place.
+
+.. toctree::
+ :maxdepth: 1
+
applying-patches
- email-clients
- submit-checklist
- code-of-conflict
adding-syscalls
magic-number
volatile-considered-harmful
- development-process
-
-
.. only:: subproject and html
Indices
diff --git a/Documentation/process/submitting-drivers.rst b/Documentation/process/submitting-drivers.rst
index 0939d018c289..afb82ee0cbea 100644
--- a/Documentation/process/submitting-drivers.rst
+++ b/Documentation/process/submitting-drivers.rst
@@ -8,6 +8,14 @@ various kernel trees. Note that if you are interested in video card drivers
you should probably talk to XFree86 (http://www.xfree86.org/) and/or X.Org
(http://x.org/) instead.
+.. note::
+
+ This document is old and has seen little maintenance in recent years; it
+ should probably be updated or, perhaps better, just deleted. Most of
+ what is here can be found in the other development documents anyway.
+
+ Oh, and we don't really recommend submitting changes to XFree86 :)
+
Also read the Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst document.
diff --git a/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst b/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst
index b4cf8f375184..3e10719fee35 100644
--- a/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst
+++ b/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
.. _submittingpatches:
-How to Get Your Change Into the Linux Kernel or Care And Operation Of Your Linus Torvalds
-=========================================================================================
+Submitting patches: the essential guide to getting your code into the kernel
+============================================================================
For a person or company who wishes to submit a change to the Linux
kernel, the process can sometimes be daunting if you're not familiar
@@ -24,10 +24,6 @@ of the mechanical work done for you, though you'll still need to prepare
and document a sensible set of patches. In general, use of ``git`` will make
your life as a kernel developer easier.
-Creating and Sending your Change
-********************************
-
-
0) Obtain a current source tree
-------------------------------
@@ -417,8 +413,8 @@ e-mail discussions.
-11) Sign your work
-------------------
+11) Sign your work — the Developer's Certificate of Origin
+----------------------------------------------------------
To improve tracking of who did what, especially with patches that can
percolate to their final resting place in the kernel through several
@@ -803,8 +799,8 @@ command like this will do the trick::
git request-pull master git://my.public.tree/linux.git my-signed-tag
-REFERENCES
-**********
+References
+----------
Andrew Morton, "The perfect patch" (tpp).
<http://www.ozlabs.org/~akpm/stuff/tpp.txt>