When debugging recent kernels, people will see '(ptrval)' but there
isn't much information as to what that means. Briefly describe why it's
there.
Signed-off-by: Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au>
Acked-by: Tobin C. Harding <me@tobin.cc>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Now that we have a new COPYING file with points to the
Linux license files, replace it with the old content.
This patch does:
1 file changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
rename COPYING.new => COPYING (100%)
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
With the addition of SPDX patchset, the contents of COPYING file
is now duplicated at two other files under LICENSE:
LICENSES/preferred/GPL-2.0
LICENSES/exceptions/Linux-syscall-note
It is easy to check that the contents of the licence written on
those files are identical with COPYING using:
$ diff -upr COPYING LICENSES/preferred/GPL-2.0
$ diff -upr COPYING LICENSES/exceptions/Linux-syscall-note|less
Also, a new file was added, with describes how SPDX should work at
the Kernel source files:
Documentation/process/license-rules.rst
Instead fo having it copying the contents of two files, and not
even mentioning the third one, replace it by a file whose content
points to the other tree files, preserving the Kernel's license.
Adjust license-rules.rst accordingly.
Please notice that this file preserves the Kernel license as
is, without any changes.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Descriptions have been collected from git commit logs, code commits and
the TrackPoint System Version 4.0 Engineering Specification.
Signed-off-by: Aishwarya Pant <aishpant@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
The oss.sgi.com doesn't exist any more.
Change it to current project URL, https://xfs.wiki.kernel.org/
Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Descriptions have collected from code comments and by reading through
code.
Signed-off-by: Aishwarya Pant <aishpant@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
This is an attempt to document the nfit sysfs interface. The
descriptions have been collected from git commit logs and the ACPI
specification 6.2.
Signed-off-by: Aishwarya Pant <aishpant@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
The existing sysfs interface has been updated to be in the same format
as described in Documentation/ABI/README. This will be useful for
scripting and tracking changes in the ABI. Attributes have been grouped
by functionality and/or the date on which they were added.
There are a couple of more changes:
- The attributes have been annotated with file permissions RO/RW/WO.
- Added description of the bus attribute supported_features
Signed-off-by: Aishwarya Pant <aishpant@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Add another example of required braces when using a compound statement in
a loop.
Signed-off-by: Gary R Hook <gary.hook@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Several files were added to Documentation/vm without updates to 00-INDEX.
Fill in the missing documents
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
I find the __sched annotations unaesthetic in the kernel-doc. Remove
them like we remove __inline, __weak, __init and so on.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Kernel.org nicely maintains an online copy of the formatted documentation;
tell our users that it exists.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
"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 <martink@posteo.de>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
I think we need to soften the language a bit. It might scare folks
off, especially the:
We prefer to fully disclose the bug as soon as possible.
which is not really the case. Linus says:
It's not full disclosure, it's not coordinated disclosure,
and it's not "no disclosure". It's more like just "timely
open fixes".
I changed a bit of the wording in here, but mostly to remove the word
"disclosure" since it seems to mean very specific things to people
that we do not mean here.
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Alan Cox <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
This converts the plain text documentation to reStructuredText format and
add it into Sphinx TOC tree. No essential content change.
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
This converts the plain text documentation to reStructuredText format and
add it into Sphinx TOC tree. No essential content change.
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
This converts the plain text documentation to reStructuredText format and
add it into Sphinx TOC tree. No essential content change.
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
This converts the plain text documentation to reStructuredText format and
add it into Sphinx TOC tree. No essential content change.
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
This converts the plain text documentation to reStructuredText format and
add it into Sphinx TOC tree. No essential content change.
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
This converts the plain text documentation to reStructuredText format and
add it into Sphinx TOC tree. No essential content change.
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
This converts the plain text documentation to reStructuredText format and
add it into Sphinx TOC tree. No essential content change.
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
This converts the plain text documentation to reStructuredText format and
add it into Sphinx TOC tree. No essential content change.
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
This converts the plain text documentation to reStructuredText format and
add it into Sphinx TOC tree. No essential content change.
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
This converts the plain text documentation to reStructuredText format and
add it into Sphinx TOC tree. No essential content change.
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
This converts the plain text documentation to reStructuredText format and
add it into Sphinx TOC tree. No essential content change.
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
This converts the plain text documentation to reStructuredText format and
add it into Sphinx TOC tree. No essential content change.
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
This converts the plain text documentation to reStructuredText format and
add it into Sphinx TOC tree. No essential content change.
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
This converts the plain text documentation to reStructuredText format and
add it into Sphinx TOC tree. No essential content change.
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Add ftrace-uses.rst into Sphinx TOC tree. Few format issues are fixed.
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
This converts the plain text documentation to reStructuredText format and
add it to Sphinx TOC tree. This documentation is not synced with current
code, so mark it as out of date.
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
This just add a index.rst for trace subsystem. More docs will
be added later.
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Add my name to kernel driver statement.
Signed-off-by: Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@iki.fi>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
When Co-Developed-by tag was added, docs were only added to
Documention/process/5.Posting.rst and were not added to
Documention/process/submitting-patches.rst
Add documentation to Documention/process/submitting-patches.rst
Signed-off-by: Tobin C. Harding <me@tobin.cc>
[jc: tweaked commas in the subheading]
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Sphinx 1.7 removed sphinx.util.compat.Directive so people
who have upgraded cannot build the documentation. Switch to
docutils.parsers.rst.Directive which has been available since
docutils 0.5 released in 2009.
Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1083694
Co-developed-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Acked-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Right now, the description of the rapidio sysfs interfaces is in
Documentation/rapidio/sysfs.txt. Since these are a part of the ABI, they
should be in Documentation/ABI along with the rest.
Signed-off-by: Aishwarya Pant <aishpant@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Alexandre Bounine <alexandre.bounine@idt.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Add documentation for sysfs interface of adp8860 series backlight
devices by reading through code and git commits.
Signed-off-by: Aishwarya Pant <aishpant@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Michael Hennerich <michael.hennerich@analog.com>
Acked-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Add documentation for sysfs interface of adp5520/adp5501 analog devices
backlight driver by reading code and looking through git commit logs.
Signed-off-by: Aishwarya Pant <aishpant@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Michael Hennerich <michael.hennerich@analog.com>
Acked-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Add documentation for sysfs interfaces of Texas Instruments lm3639
backlight + flash led driver chip by looking through git commits and
reading code.
Signed-off-by: Aishwarya Pant <aishpant@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Documentation has been compiled from git logs and by reading through
code.
Signed-off-by: Aishwarya Pant <aishpant@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Add documentation for core and hardware specific infiniband interfaces.
The descriptions have been collected from git commit logs, reading
through code and data sheets. Some drivers have incomplete doc and are
annotated with the comment '[to be documented]'.
Signed-off-by: Aishwarya Pant <aishpant@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Hal Rosenstock <hal@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Documentation has been compiled from git commit logs and descriptions in
Documentation/aoe/aoe.txt. This should be useful for scripting and
tracking changes in the ABI.
Signed-off-by: Aishwarya Pant <aishpant@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Document sysfs attributes of s6e63m0 lcd panel driver by looking through
git logs and reading code.
Signed-off-by: Aishwarya Pant <aishpant@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Clean up the sysfs documentation such that it is in the same format as
described in Documentation/ABI/README. Mainly, the patch moves the
attribute names to the 'What:' field. This might be useful for scripting
and tracking changes in the ABI.
Signed-off-by: Aishwarya Pant <aishpant@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Currently there is no automated checking for kernel-doc comments except
running 'kernel-doc -v -none <filename>'. Mention the possibility to run
kernel-doc to verify formatting of the comments in the kernel-doc guide.
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Move the _if_ outside the verbatim string.
Make key ring name as a verbatim string.
Signed-off-by: Philipp Hahn <hahn@univention.de>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Commit d3bfe84129 changed the name but did
not update the documentation.
Fixes: d3bfe84129
Signed-off-by: Philipp Hahn <hahn@univention.de>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
So once upon a time I set out to fix the problem reported by Tobin wherein
a literal block within a kerneldoc comment would be corrupted in
processing. On the way, though, I got annoyed at the way I have to learn
how kernel-doc works from the beginning every time I tear into it.
As a result, seven of the following eight patches just get rid of some dead
code and reorganize the rest - mostly turning the 500-line process_file()
function into something a bit more rational. Sphinx output is unchanged
after these are applied. Then, at the end, there's a tweak to stop messing
with literal blocks.
If anybody was unaware that I've not done any serious Perl since the
1990's, they will certainly understand that fact now.
Add the SPDX header while I'm in the neighborhood. The source itself just
says "GNU General Public License", but it also refers people to the COPYING
file for further information. Since COPYING says 2.0-only, that is what I
have put into the header.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
