From 9b4ebd98da9112f974a6db58555a33eb1bd7c0b0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jonathan Corbet Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2016 16:34:09 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] docs: Apply some basic organization to the process guide Put like documents together, with the essential ones at the top, and split the TOC into sections. Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet --- Documentation/process/changes.rst | 2 +- Documentation/process/index.rst | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++++-------- 2 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) 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 6ee818752474..0cbc62adbbb1 100644 --- a/Documentation/process/index.rst +++ b/Documentation/process/index.rst @@ -4,29 +4,48 @@ \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 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: 2 + + 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: 2 + applying-patches - email-clients - submit-checklist - code-of-conflict adding-syscalls magic-number volatile-considered-harmful - development-process -- GitLab