Re: [PATCH v3] Documentation: Update details of The Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide

[Jonathan Corbet]

Chun-Hung Tseng <henrybear327@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Recently, the content and examples of the book "The Linux Kernel Module
> Programming Guide" are being actively maintained and added on Github[1].
> Currently, the book is being regularly built into webpage and pdf
> file using Github static page[2].
>
> [1]: https://github.com/sysprog21/lkmpg
> [2]: https://sysprog21.github.io/lkmpg/
>
> Signed-off-by: Chun-Hung Tseng <henrybear327@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  Documentation/process/kernel-docs.rst | 14 ++++++++------
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/process/kernel-docs.rst b/Documentation/process/kernel-docs.rst
> index 22d9ace5df2a..dd911cf09b55 100644
> --- a/Documentation/process/kernel-docs.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/process/kernel-docs.rst
> @@ -126,15 +126,17 @@ On-line docs
>          describes how to write user-mode utilities for communicating with
>          Card Services.
>  
> -    * Title: **Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide**
> +    * Title: **The Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide**
>  
> -      :Author: Ori Pomerantz.
> -      :URL: https://tldp.org/LDP/lkmpg/2.6/html/index.html
> -      :Date: 2001
> +      :Author: Peter Jay Salzman, Michael Burian, Ori Pomerantz, Bob Mottram,
> +      Jim Huang.
> +      :URL: https://sysprog21.github.io/lkmpg/
> +      :Date: 2021
>        :Keywords: modules, GPL book, /proc, ioctls, system calls,
>          interrupt handlers .
> -      :Description: Very nice 92 pages GPL book on the topic of modules
> -        programming. Lots of examples.
> +      :Description: A very nice GPL book on the topic of modules
> +        programming. Lots of examples. Currently the new version is being
> +        actively maintained at https://github.com/sysprog21/lkmpg.

I have applied this, thanks.

That said, this change introduced a set of build warnings:

    Documentation/process/kernel-docs.rst:132: WARNING: Field list ends without a blank line; unexpected unindent.
    Documentation/process/kernel-docs.rst:136: WARNING: Unexpected indentation.
    Documentation/process/kernel-docs.rst:137: WARNING: Block quote ends without a blank line; unexpected unindent.

To fix that, I had to do this:

diff --git a/Documentation/process/kernel-docs.rst b/Documentation/process/kernel-docs.rst
index dd911cf09b55..da9527502ef0 100644
--- a/Documentation/process/kernel-docs.rst
+++ b/Documentation/process/kernel-docs.rst
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ On-line docs
     * Title: **The Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide**
 
       :Author: Peter Jay Salzman, Michael Burian, Ori Pomerantz, Bob Mottram,
-      Jim Huang.
+        Jim Huang.
       :URL: https://sysprog21.github.io/lkmpg/
       :Date: 2021
       :Keywords: modules, GPL book, /proc, ioctls, system calls,

Please, be sure to test the docs build before sending patches.

Thanks,

jon