From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
To: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>,
Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>,
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Subject: [PATCH 03/11] docs: Clean up and organize the admin guide a bit
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2016 17:19:31 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1477523979-5837-4-git-send-email-corbet@lwn.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1477523979-5837-1-git-send-email-corbet@lwn.net>
The admin guide is a good start, but it's time to turn it into something
better than an unordered blob of files. This is a first step in that
direction. The TOC has been split up and annotated, the guides have been
reordered, and minor tweaks have been applied to a few of them.
One consequence of splitting up the TOC is that we don't really want to use
:numbered: anymore, since the count resets every time and there doesn't
seem to be a way to change that. Eventually we probably want to group the
documents into sub-books, at which point we can go back to a single TOC,
but it's probably early to do that.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
---
Documentation/admin-guide/index.rst | 50 +++++++++++++++++++------
Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst | 4 +-
Documentation/admin-guide/sysfs-rules.rst | 4 +-
Documentation/admin-guide/vga-softcursor.rst | 4 +-
4 files changed, 45 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/index.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/index.rst
index 4e5abbb4bbd5..2ce2bf02824b 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/index.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/index.rst
@@ -1,22 +1,52 @@
-Linux Kernel User's Documentation
-=================================
+The Linux kernel user's and administrator's guide
+=================================================
-Contents:
+The following is a collection of user-oriented documents that have been
+added to the kernel over time. There is, as yet, little overall order or
+organization here — this material was not written to be a single, coherent
+document! With luck things will improve quickly over time.
+
+This initial section contains overall information, including the README
+file describing the kernel as a whole, documentation on kernel parameters,
+etc.
.. toctree::
- :maxdepth: 2
- :numbered:
+ :maxdepth: 1
README
+ kernel-parameters
+ devices
+
+Here is a set of documents aimed at users who are trying to track down
+problems and bugs in particular.
+
+.. toctree::
+ :maxdepth: 1
+
reporting-bugs
+ security-bugs
bug-hunting
oops-tracing
ramoops
- initrd
- init
dynamic-debug-howto
- security-bugs
- kernel-parameters
+ init
+
+This is the beginning of a section with information of interest to
+application developers. Documents covering various aspects of the kernel
+ABI will be found here.
+
+.. toctree::
+ :maxdepth: 1
+
+ sysfs-rules
+
+The rest of this manual consists of various unordered guides on how to
+configure specific aspects of kernel behavior to your liking.
+
+.. toctree::
+ :maxdepth: 1
+
+ initrd
serial-console
braille-console
parport
@@ -25,8 +55,6 @@ Contents:
sysrq
unicode
vga-softcursor
- sysfs-rules
- devices
binfmt-misc
mono
java
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst
index d2f2725f032e..37105aedb2e4 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-Kernel Parameters
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+The kernel's command-line parameters
+====================================
The following is a consolidated list of the kernel parameters as
implemented by the __setup(), core_param() and module_param() macros
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysfs-rules.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysfs-rules.rst
index 04bdd52cba1d..8273bb1de105 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysfs-rules.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysfs-rules.rst
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-Rules on how to access information in the Linux kernel sysfs
-============================================================
+Rules on how to access information in sysfs
+============================================
The kernel-exported sysfs exports internal kernel implementation details
and depends on internal kernel structures and layout. It is agreed upon
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/vga-softcursor.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/vga-softcursor.rst
index 9eac6744b3a1..a663a745cff4 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/vga-softcursor.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/vga-softcursor.rst
@@ -50,8 +50,8 @@ third parameter
.. [#f1] see ``#define TRIDENT_GLITCH`` in ``drivers/video/vgacon.c``.
-Examples:
-=========
+Examples
+--------
To get normal blinking underline, use::
--
2.7.4
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-10-26 23:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-10-26 23:19 [PATCH 00/11] Organize and clean up the admin and process guides Jonathan Corbet
2016-10-26 23:19 ` [PATCH 01/11] docs: Tweak the top-level Sphinx page Jonathan Corbet
2016-10-27 0:12 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2016-10-26 23:19 ` [PATCH 02/11] docs: retitle the kernel-documentation.rst Jonathan Corbet
2016-10-27 0:13 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2016-10-26 23:19 ` Jonathan Corbet [this message]
2016-10-27 0:18 ` [PATCH 03/11] docs: Clean up and organize the admin guide a bit Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2016-10-26 23:19 ` [PATCH 04/11] docs: Get rid of the badRAM guide Jonathan Corbet
2016-10-27 0:19 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2016-10-26 23:19 ` [PATCH 05/11] docs: Get rid of the "basic profiling" guide Jonathan Corbet
2016-10-27 0:20 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2016-10-26 23:19 ` [PATCH 06/11] docs: Get rid of the "bug-hunting" guide Jonathan Corbet
2016-10-27 0:23 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2016-10-26 23:19 ` [PATCH 07/11] docs: Apply some basic organization to the process guide Jonathan Corbet
2016-10-27 0:24 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2016-10-26 23:19 ` [PATCH 08/11] docs: Tweak submitting-patches.rst formatting Jonathan Corbet
2016-10-27 0:25 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2016-10-26 23:19 ` [PATCH 09/11] docs: Collapse the process guide TOC Jonathan Corbet
2016-10-27 0:26 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2016-10-26 23:19 ` [PATCH 10/11] docs: add a warning to submitting-drivers.rst Jonathan Corbet
2016-10-27 0:38 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2016-10-26 23:19 ` [PATCH 11/11] docs: Add a warning to applying-patches.rst Jonathan Corbet
2016-10-27 0:32 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
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