Re: [PATCH 0/8] Move most GPIO documentation to driver-api/gpio/ and ReST

From: Linus Walleij
Date: Sat Mar 10 2018 - 06:50:55 EST


On Fri, Mar 9, 2018 at 12:40 AM, Jonathan NeuschÃfer
<j.neuschaefer@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> The aim of this patchset is to move the GPIO subsystem's documentation
> under Documentation/driver-api/gpio/ such that it is picked up by Sphinx
> and compiled into HTML.

Awesome!

> I moved everything except for sysfs.txt, because
> this file describes the legacy sysfs ABI, and doesn't seem to serve much
> (non-historical) purpose anymore.
>
> There are still some rough edges:
>
> * I think the API documentation (kernel-doc) should be moved out of
> index.rst into more appropriate files.
> * The headings are arguably wrong, because driver.rst, consumer.rst,
> etc. use the "document title" style, even though they are part of the
> GPIO chapter. But the resulting TOC tree is consistent, and I did not
> want to change almost all headings.
> * Some of the files could use more :c:func:`...` references and general
> ReST polish.
>
> But I don't want to make this patchset too large.

It's fine, we take it one step at a time.

On Fri, Mar 09, 2018 at 10:41:20AM -0700, Jonathan Corbet wrote:

> Anyway, I'm happy to take these through the docs tree or see them go via
> GPIO; Linus, what's your preference?

I might have some doc patches that could collide so I can take them.

I take it there will be a v2?

Yours,
Linus Walleij