Kernel.org nicely maintains an online copy of the formatted documentation;
tell our users that it exists.
Signed-off-by: NJonathan 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: NMartin Kepplinger <martink@posteo.de>
Signed-off-by: NJonathan 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: NDave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: NDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Acked-by: NKees 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: NJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

Make sure that literal * characters are not interpreted as emphasis
markers.
Signed-off-by: NJonathan 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: NChangbin Du <changbin.du@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NJonathan 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: NChangbin Du <changbin.du@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NJonathan 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: NChangbin Du <changbin.du@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NJonathan 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: NChangbin Du <changbin.du@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NJonathan 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: NChangbin Du <changbin.du@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NJonathan 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: NChangbin Du <changbin.du@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NJonathan 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: NChangbin Du <changbin.du@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NJonathan 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: NChangbin Du <changbin.du@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NJonathan 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: NChangbin Du <changbin.du@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NJonathan 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: NChangbin Du <changbin.du@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NJonathan 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: NChangbin Du <changbin.du@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NJonathan 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: NChangbin Du <changbin.du@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NJonathan 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: NChangbin Du <changbin.du@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NJonathan 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: NChangbin Du <changbin.du@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NJonathan 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: NChangbin Du <changbin.du@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NJonathan 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: NChangbin Du <changbin.du@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NJonathan 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: NChangbin Du <changbin.du@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

Add my name to kernel driver statement.
Signed-off-by: NAaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@iki.fi>
Acked-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NJonathan 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: NTobin C. Harding <me@tobin.cc>
[jc: tweaked commas in the subheading]
Signed-off-by: NJonathan 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=1083694Co-developed-by: NTakashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Acked-by: NJani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: NMatthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: NJonathan 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: NAishwarya Pant <aishpant@gmail.com>
Acked-by: NAlexandre Bounine <alexandre.bounine@idt.com>
Signed-off-by: NJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

Add documentation for sysfs interface of adp8860 series backlight
devices by reading through code and git commits.
Signed-off-by: NAishwarya Pant <aishpant@gmail.com>
Acked-by: NMichael Hennerich <michael.hennerich@analog.com>
Acked-by: NDaniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: NJonathan 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: NAishwarya Pant <aishpant@gmail.com>
Acked-by: NMichael Hennerich <michael.hennerich@analog.com>
Acked-by: NDaniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: NJonathan 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: NAishwarya Pant <aishpant@gmail.com>
Acked-by: NDaniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: NJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

Documentation has been compiled from git logs and by reading through
code.
Signed-off-by: NAishwarya Pant <aishpant@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJonathan 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: NAishwarya Pant <aishpant@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: NHal Rosenstock <hal@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: NJonathan 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: NAishwarya Pant <aishpant@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

Document sysfs attributes of s6e63m0 lcd panel driver by looking through
git logs and reading code.
Signed-off-by: NAishwarya Pant <aishpant@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJonathan 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: NAishwarya Pant <aishpant@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJonathan 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: NMike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

Move the _if_ outside the verbatim string.

Make key ring name as a verbatim string.
Signed-off-by: NPhilipp Hahn <hahn@univention.de>
Signed-off-by: NJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

Commit d3bfe841 changed the name but did
not update the documentation.

Fixes: d3bfe841Signed-off-by: NPhilipp Hahn <hahn@univention.de>
Signed-off-by: NJonathan 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: NJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

This patch fixes a warning during "make xmldocs"

Documentation/driver-api/slimbus.rst:93:
WARNING: Title underline too short.
Signed-off-by: NMasanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

Without this patch, the points 1-9 in the list are rendered as an HTML
blockquote containing a list, causing them to be indented further than
the rest of the list.

While at it, also fix the quotation marks around G and P.
Signed-off-by: NJonathan Neuschäfer <j.neuschaefer@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: NJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>