[PATCH 01/17] HOWTO.rst: update information about generating documentation

From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab
Date: Wed Sep 14 2016 - 19:08:31 EST


The description there are pre-Sphinx. Update it to cover the
new way.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/development-process/HOWTO.rst | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++------
1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/development-process/HOWTO.rst b/Documentation/development-process/HOWTO.rst
index 9a06de24b755..88211283753d 100644
--- a/Documentation/development-process/HOWTO.rst
+++ b/Documentation/development-process/HOWTO.rst
@@ -164,21 +164,37 @@ required reading:
apply it to the different development branches of the kernel.

The kernel also has a large number of documents that can be
-automatically generated from the source code itself. This includes a
+automatically generated from the source code itself or from
+ReStructuredText markups (ReST), like this one. This includes a
full description of the in-kernel API, and rules on how to handle
-locking properly. The documents will be created in the
-Documentation/DocBook/ directory and can be generated as PDF,
-Postscript, HTML, and man pages by running:
+locking properly.
+
+All such documents can be generated as PDF or HTML by running:

::

make pdfdocs
- make psdocs
make htmldocs
- make mandocs

respectively from the main kernel source directory.

+The documents that uses ReST markup will be generated at Documentation/output.
+They can also be generated on LaTeX and ePub formats with:
+
+::
+
+ make latexdocs
+ make epubdocs
+
+Currently, there are some documents written on DocBook that are in
+the process of conversion to ReST. Such documents will be created in the
+Documentation/DocBook/ directory and can be generated also as
+Postscript or man pages by running:
+
+::
+
+ make psdocs
+ make mandocs

Becoming A Kernel Developer
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2.7.4