Documentation should lead by example, so here's a basic maintainer entry
profile for this subsystem.
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
This is mostly a collection of thoughts for how people who want to help out
can make the docs better. Hopefully the world will respond with a flurry
of useful patches.
Acked-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
The 'functions' directive is not only for functions, but also works for
structs/unions. So the name is misleading. This patch renames it to
'identifiers', which specific the functions/types to be included in
documentation. We keep the old name as an alias of the new one before
all documentation are updated.
Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Now that the latex_documents are handled automatically, we can
remove those extra conf.py files.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
fix the disjunction by replacing "of" with "or".
Signed-off-by: Sheriff Esseson <sheriffesseson@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Now that we can mark up function() automatically, there is no reason to use
:c:func: and every reason to avoid it. Adjust the documentation to reflect
that fact.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
There's a paragraph that explains how to create fixed width text block,
but it doesn't explains how to create fixed width text inline, although
this feature is really used through the documentation. Fix that adding a
quick note about it.
Signed-off-by: André Almeida <andrealmeid@collabora.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
As discussed at the linux-doc ML, while we'll still support
version 1.3, it is time to recommend a more modern version.
So, let's switch the minimal requirements to Sphinx 1.7.9,
as it has the "-jauto" flag, with makes a lot faster when
building documentation.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
On almost all places, we're including ReST files without the
extension.
Let's remove the extension here as well, in order to use just
one standard.
Suggested-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
"If no *function* if specified" should instead be
"If no *function* is specified".
Reported-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Frank Rowand <frank.rowand@sony.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
(1) The command to generate man pages is truncated in the pdf version
of the document. Reformat the command into multiple lines to prevent
the truncation.
(2) Older versions of git do not support all variants of pathspec
syntax. Provide commands to generate man pages for various
alternate syntax.
Signed-off-by: Frank Rowand <frank.rowand@sony.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
While using this guide to learn the new documentation method, I saw
a few phrases that I felt could be improved. These small changes
improve the grammar and choice of words to further enhance the
installation instructions.
Signed-off-by: Joel Nider <joeln@il.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Some documents are refering to others without links. With this
patch I add those missing links.
This patch affects only documents under process/ and labels where
necessary.
Signed-off-by: Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@vaga.pv.it>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
In the Function documentation Section of kernel-doc.rst
there is a function_name() function as an example for
how to make a comment about a function.
But at the end of that example there is a reference to foobar
instead of function_name.
I think that should rather be function_name, because that
was the placeholder the whole example was using.
Signed-off-by: Joris Gutjahr <joris.gutjahr@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
When kernel-doc:: specified in .rst document without explicit directives,
it outputs both comment and DOC: sections. If a DOC: section was explicitly
included in the same document it will be duplicated. For example, the
output generated for Documentation/core-api/idr.rst [1] has "IDA
description" in the "IDA usage" section and in the middle of the API
reference.
This patch enables using "functions" directive without parameters to output
all the documentation excluding DOC: sections.
[1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.17/core-api/idr.html
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
The description speaks about the option ``--man`` but it
does not exist. Instead, there is the option ``--usage``
$ ./Documentation/sphinx/parse-headers.pl --man
Unknown option: man
Usage:
parse_headers.pl [<options>] <C_FILE> <OUT_FILE> [<EXCEPTIONS_FILE>]
Where <options> can be: --debug, --help or --man.
Signed-off-by: Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@vaga.pv.it>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Fix a typo in sphinx.rst and a minor error in parse-header.rst
Signed-off-by: Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@vaga.pv.it>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
From now on, I'll start using my @kernel.org as my development e-mail.
As such, let's remove the entries that point to the old
mchehab@s-opensource.com at MAINTAINERS file.
For the files written with a copyright with mchehab@s-opensource,
let's keep Samsung on their names, using mchehab+samsung@kernel.org,
in order to keep pointing to my employer, with sponsors the work.
For the files written before I join Samsung (on July, 4 2013),
let's just use mchehab@kernel.org.
For bug reports, we can simply point to just kernel.org, as
this will reach my mchehab+samsung inbox anyway.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Warner <brian.warner@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Currently there is no automated checking for kernel-doc comments except
running 'kernel-doc -v -none <filename>'. Mention the possibility to run
kernel-doc to verify formatting of the comments in the kernel-doc guide.
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
It helps to give some examples about how to use in-line
comments also when nested union/structs are present. So add it.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
We want to give some examples about how to do in-line comments
for nested structs. So, move it to be after nested structs/unions
chapter.
The section content was not changed on this patch.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Without ending with a ";", kernel-doc doesn't recognize it
as an struct, and it fails to parse the example.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
There's a missing */ at the end of Kernel docs example.
Even adding it, it will still produce 3 warnings:
example:33: warning: Function parameter or member 'bar' not described in 'nested_foobar'
example:33: warning: Function parameter or member 'bar.st1' not described in 'nested_foobar'
example:33: warning: Function parameter or member 'bar.st2' not described in 'nested_foobar'
So, make the example more complete and add the missing end
of comment there.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
