Re: [PATCH 0/1] docs: Include simplified link titles in main page's index

From: Randy Dunlap
Date: Thu Dec 21 2023 - 01:12:23 EST




On 12/20/23 21:59, Vegard Nossum wrote:
> On 15/12/2023 16:47, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
>> Carlos Bilbao <bilbao@xxxxxx> writes:
>>
>>> The general consensus is that the documentation's website main entry point
>>> and its sidebar leave room for improvement.
> [...]
>> Meanwhile, I'm pondering on this patch, would like to know what others
>> think.  Carlos nicely put up some comparison images for us:
>>
>>    https://github.com/Zildj1an/linux-kernel-docs-compare/blob/main/comparison.png
>
> FWIW, I like it, but I would suggest these changes:
>
> Driver implementation API -> Driver APIs
> Testing -> Testing guide
> Hacking -> Hacking guides
> User-space tools -> Userspace tools
> User-space API -> Userspace APIs
> CPU Architectures -> CPU architectures
>
> I know "user space" is technically two words, but the one-word form is
> MUCH more prevalent in the kernel, for example if you check the mainline
> log you'll see something like:
>
> $ git log --grep 'user.*space' | grep -o 'user.*space' | sort | uniq -c | sort -g | tail -n 3
>    3135 user-space
>    7835 user space
>   26917 userspace
>
> I think it makes sense to pluralize API -> APIs in most places, so e.g.
> "Core APIs", "Driver APIs", "Userspace APIs". Just to emphasize that
> these are really collections of disparate APIs (e.g. workqueues is one
> API, linked lists is another, etc.).

+1 for all suggestions.

Thanks.
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#Randy