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| author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2024-01-11 19:46:52 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2024-01-11 19:46:52 -0800 |
| commit | 5b9b41617bf3e1282cc60f07d3d52e62399aa4ba (patch) | |
| tree | cff3bb6bac83d19a7afd9e6d637ec4d6480e5d0f /Documentation/process/development-process.rst | |
| parent | 22d29f1112c85c1ad519a8c0403f7f7289cf060c (diff) | |
| parent | 2d179e8ac02e33c82c1a314961254353eb5028b3 (diff) | |
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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diff --git a/Documentation/process/development-process.rst b/Documentation/process/development-process.rst index 61c627e41ba8..e34d7da58b7f 100644 --- a/Documentation/process/development-process.rst +++ b/Documentation/process/development-process.rst @@ -3,9 +3,17 @@ A guide to the Kernel Development Process ========================================= -Contents: +The purpose of this document is to help developers (and their managers) +work with the development community with a minimum of frustration. It is +an attempt to document how this community works in a way which is +accessible to those who are not intimately familiar with Linux kernel +development (or, indeed, free software development in general). While +there is some technical material here, this is very much a process-oriented +discussion which does not require a deep knowledge of kernel programming to +understand. .. toctree:: + :caption: Contents :numbered: :maxdepth: 2 @@ -17,12 +25,3 @@ Contents: 6.Followthrough 7.AdvancedTopics 8.Conclusion - -The purpose of this document is to help developers (and their managers) -work with the development community with a minimum of frustration. It is -an attempt to document how this community works in a way which is -accessible to those who are not intimately familiar with Linux kernel -development (or, indeed, free software development in general). While -there is some technical material here, this is very much a process-oriented -discussion which does not require a deep knowledge of kernel programming to -understand. |
