Re: [PATCH 03/11] docs: Clean up and organize the admin guide a bit
From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab
Date: Wed Oct 26 2016 - 20:29:20 EST
Em Wed, 26 Oct 2016 17:19:31 -0600
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx> escreveu:
> 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@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> 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 â 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
> +============================================
There is an extra space in the above.
Except for that, the remaining looks OK on my eyes.
With that fixed, feel free to add:
Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Regards,
Mauro