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2020-03-20docs: locking: Drop :c:func: throughoutStephen Boyd
The kernel doc tooling knows how to do this itself so drop this markup throughout this file to simplify. Suggested-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <swboyd@chromium.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200318174133.160206-3-swboyd@chromium.org Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-03-20docs: locking: Add 'need' to hardirq sectionStephen Boyd
Add the missing word to make this sentence read properly. Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <swboyd@chromium.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200318174133.160206-2-swboyd@chromium.org Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-03-20docs: prevent warnings due to autosectionlabelMauro Carvalho Chehab
Changeset 58ad30cf91f0 ("docs: fix reference to core-api/namespaces.rst") enabled a new feature at Sphinx: it will now generate index for each document title, plus to each chapter inside it. There's a drawback, though: one document cannot have two sections with the same name anymore. A followup patch will change the logic of autosectionlabel to avoid most creating references for every single section title, but still we need to be able to reference the chapters inside a document. There are a few places where there are two chapters with the same name. This patch renames one of the chapters, in order to avoid symbol conflict within the same document. PS.: as I don't speach Chinese, I had some help from a friend (Wen Liu) at the Chinese translation for "publishing patches" for this document: Documentation/translations/zh_CN/process/5.Posting.rst Fixes: 58ad30cf91f0 ("docs: fix reference to core-api/namespaces.rst") Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/2bffb91e4a63d41bf5fae1c23e1e8b3bba0b8806.1584716446.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-03-19docs: fix reference to core-api/namespaces.rstJonathan Corbet
Fix a couple of dangling links to core-api/namespaces.rst by turning them into proper references. Enable the autosection extension (available since Sphinx 1.4) to make this work. Co-developed-by: Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@vaga.pv.it> Fixes: fcfacb9f8374 ("doc: move namespaces.rst from kbuild/ to core-api/") Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-12-19Documentation: kernel-hacking: hacking.rst: Change reference to document ↵Madhuparna Bhowmik
namespaces.rst to symbol-namespaces.rst This patch fixes the following documentation build warning: Warning: Documentation/kernel-hacking/hacking.rst references a file that doesn't exist: Documentation/kbuild/namespaces.rst According to the following patch: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/11178727/ (doc: move namespaces.rst from kbuild/ to core-api/) The file namespaces.rst was moved from kbuild to core-api and renamed to symbol-namespaces.rst. Therefore, this patch changes the reference to the document kbuild/namespaces.rst in hacking.rst to core-api/symbol-namespaces.rst Signed-off-by: Madhuparna Bhowmik <madhuparnabhowmik04@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191204104554.9100-1-madhuparnabhowmik04@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-09-10docs: Add documentation for Symbol NamespacesMatthias Maennich
Describe using Symbol Namespaces from a perspective of a user. I.e. module authors or subsystem maintainers. Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Matthias Maennich <maennich@google.com> Signed-off-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>
2019-07-17docs: remove extra conf.py filesMauro Carvalho Chehab
Now that the latex_documents are handled automatically, we can remove those extra conf.py files. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
2019-07-15docs: locking: convert docs to ReST and rename to *.rstMauro Carvalho Chehab
Convert the locking documents to ReST and add them to the kernel development book where it belongs. Most of the stuff here is just to make Sphinx to properly parse the text file, as they're already in good shape, not requiring massive changes in order to be parsed. The conversion is actually: - add blank lines and identation in order to identify paragraphs; - fix tables markups; - add some lists markups; - mark literal blocks; - adjust title markups. At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org> Acked-by: Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@vaga.pv.it>
2019-06-20docs: stop suggesting strlcpyStephen Kitt
Since strlcpy is deprecated, the documentation shouldn't suggest using it. This patch fixes the examples to use strscpy instead. It also uses sizeof instead of underlying constants as far as possible, to simplify future changes to the corresponding data structures. Signed-off-by: Stephen Kitt <steve@sk2.org> Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Acked-by: Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@vaga.pv.it> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-06-14docs: kbuild: convert docs to ReST and rename to *.rstMauro Carvalho Chehab
The kbuild documentation clearly shows that the documents there are written at different times: some use markdown, some use their own peculiar logic to split sections. Convert everything to ReST without affecting too much the author's style and avoiding adding uneeded markups. The conversion is actually: - add blank lines and identation in order to identify paragraphs; - fix tables markups; - add some lists markups; - mark literal blocks; - adjust title markups. At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-07-26doc:it_IT: translation for kernel-hackingFederico Vaga
This patch includes the kernel-hacking translation in Italian (both hacking.rst and locking.rst). It adds also the anchors for the english kernel-hacking documents. Signed-off-by: Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@vaga.pv.it> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-07-26docs: Fix the reference labels in Locking.rstJonathan Corbet
Two jump tags were misspelled, leading to non-working cross-reference links. Reported-by: Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@vaga.pv.it> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-06-26doc: add some chapter labelsFederico Vaga
The idea is to make it easier to create references (doc-guide does the same). This will be used, for example but not only, in translations to point to the main document. Signed-off-by: Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@vaga.pv.it> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-01-17Documentation: Fix misconversion of #ifMatthew Wilcox
At some stage of the conversion pipeline, something thought that the DocBook entity &num; should be rendered as NUM instead of #. Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2017-12-11Documentation: kernel-hacking: corrected a typoMarco Donato Torsello
Corrected a typo. Signed-off-by: Marco Donato Torsello <marcodonato.torsello@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2017-07-03Merge tag 'docs-4.13' of git://git.lwn.net/linuxLinus Torvalds
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "There has been a fair amount of activity in the docs tree this time around. Highlights include: - Conversion of a bunch of security documentation into RST - The conversion of the remaining DocBook templates by The Amazing Mauro Machine. We can now drop the entire DocBook build chain. - The usual collection of fixes and minor updates" * tag 'docs-4.13' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (90 commits) scripts/kernel-doc: handle DECLARE_HASHTABLE Documentation: atomic_ops.txt is core-api/atomic_ops.rst Docs: clean up some DocBook loose ends Make the main documentation title less Geocities Docs: Use kernel-figure in vidioc-g-selection.rst Docs: fix table problems in ras.rst Docs: Fix breakage with Sphinx 1.5 and upper Docs: Include the Latex "ifthen" package doc/kokr/howto: Only send regression fixes after -rc1 docs-rst: fix broken links to dynamic-debug-howto in kernel-parameters doc: Document suitability of IBM Verse for kernel development Doc: fix a markup error in coding-style.rst docs: driver-api: i2c: remove some outdated information Documentation: DMA API: fix a typo in a function name Docs: Insert missing space to separate link from text doc/ko_KR/memory-barriers: Update control-dependencies example Documentation, kbuild: fix typo "minimun" -> "minimum" docs: Fix some formatting issues in request-key.rst doc: ReSTify keys-trusted-encrypted.txt doc: ReSTify keys-request-key.txt ...
2017-05-16locking.rst: Update some ReST markupsMauro Carvalho Chehab
Correct a few minor issues with ReST notation used on this file (produced by an automatic tool). Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
2017-05-16locking.rst: add captions to two tablesMauro Carvalho Chehab
Those tables have a "caption" at the end, but ReST actually expects it on a different way. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
2017-05-16locking.rst: reformat locking tableMauro Carvalho Chehab
Use a different markup for this table, in order to make it smaller when seeing in text mode. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
2017-05-16docs-rst: convert kernel-locking to ReSTMauro Carvalho Chehab
Use pandoc to convert documentation to ReST by calling Documentation/sphinx/tmplcvt script. - Manually adjust tables with got broken by conversion Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
2017-05-16kernel-hacking: update documentMauro Carvalho Chehab
This document is fairly updated. Yet, some stuff moved to other kernel headers. So, update to point to the right places. While here, adjust some minor ReST markups. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
2017-05-16docs-rst: convert kernel-hacking to ReSTMauro Carvalho Chehab
Use pandoc to convert documentation to ReST by calling Documentation/sphinx/tmplcvt script. - Manually adjusted to use ..note and ..warning - Minor fixes for it to be parsed without errors - Use **bold** for emphasis. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>