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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

  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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