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Chuck Lever 3a1ce35030 NFSD: Add a subsystem policy document
Steer contributors to NFSD's patchworks instance, list our patch
submission preferences, and more. The new document is based on the
existing netdev and xfs subsystem policy documents.

This is an attempt to add transparency to the process of accepting
contributions to NFSD and getting them merged upstream.

Suggested-by: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>
Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Cc: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: NeilBrown <neil@brown.name>
[ cel: Hand-edits to address review comments ]
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
2025-11-16 18:20:11 -05:00
Thorsten BlumandJonathan Corbet d725668ed2 docs: maintainer: Fix ambiguous subheading formatting
Add a newline after both subheadings to avoid any ambiguous formatting,
especially in htmldocs. Without the newline, subheadings are rendered as
part of the following paragraphs, which can be confusing to read.

Suggested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>
Reviewed-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <20250916222944.2547948-2-thorsten.blum@linux.dev>
2025-09-18 10:26:45 -06:00
Jonathan Corbet 944df7a314 docs: update the guidance for Link: tags
As stated definitively by Linus, the use of Link: tags should be limited to
situations where there is additional useful information to be found at the
far end of the link.  Update our documentation to reflect that policy, and
to remove the suggestion for a Git hook to add those tags automatically.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=wh5AyuvEhNY9a57v-vwyr7EkPVRUKMPwj92yF_K0dJHVg@mail.gmail.com/
Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <87segwyc3p.fsf@trenco.lwn.net>
2025-09-15 17:22:38 -06:00
Thorsten BlumandJonathan Corbet 3a1b9c4d8e docs: Remove redundant word "for"
s/for//

Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241018172924.159221-2-thorsten.blum@linux.dev
2024-10-21 09:32:20 -06:00
Jakub KicinskiandJonathan Corbet e35fa1f236 docs: maintainer: discourage taking conversations off-list
Multiple vendors seem to prefer taking discussions off list, and
ask contributors to work with them privately rather than just send
patches to the list. I'd imagine this is because it's hard to fit in
time for random developers popping up with features to review into
packed schedule. From what I've seen "work in private" usually means
someone on the company side will be assigned to handle the interaction,
possibly months later. In worst case, the person scheduled to help
the contributor takes over and writes the code themselves.
This is not how the community is supposed to work.

Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240713235020.820910-1-kuba@kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240712144903.392284-1-kuba@kernel.org
2024-07-16 11:08:26 -06:00
SeongJae ParkandJonathan Corbet 10db427665 Docs/maintainer/maintainer-entry-profile: add DAMON maintainer profile
DAMON has its maintainer entry profile document, but it's not listed on
the existing profiles section of maintainer-entry-profile.rst.  Add it.

Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240624185312.94537-7-sj@kernel.org
2024-06-26 16:36:00 -06:00
Krzysztof KozlowskiandJonathan Corbet d74029f6c2 docs: maintainer: add existing SoC and netdev profiles
Extend the list of maintainer profiles with SoC and netdev.

Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240131125351.123509-1-krzysztof.kozlowski@linaro.org
2024-02-05 10:05:57 -07:00
Bagas SanjayaandChandan Babu R 011f129fee Documentation: xfs: consolidate XFS docs into its own subdirectory
XFS docs are currently in upper-level Documentation/filesystems.
Although these are currently 4 docs, they are already outstanding as
a group and can be moved to its own subdirectory.

Consolidate them into Documentation/filesystems/xfs/.

Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Bill O'Donnell <bodonnel@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Chandan Babu R <chandanbabu@kernel.org>
2023-12-07 14:49:13 +05:30
Costa ShulyupinandJonathan Corbet ed843ae947 docs: move riscv under arch
and fix all in-tree references.

Architecture-specific documentation is being moved into Documentation/arch/
as a way of cleaning up the top-level documentation directory and making
the docs hierarchy more closely match the source hierarchy.

Signed-off-by: Costa Shulyupin <costa.shul@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@microchip.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230930185354.3034118-1-costa.shul@redhat.com
2023-10-10 13:37:43 -06:00
Linus Torvalds cd99b9eb4b Merge tag 'docs-6.6' of git://git.lwn.net/linux
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
 "Documentation work keeps chugging along; this includes:

   - Work from Carlos Bilbao to integrate rustdoc output into the
     generated HTML documentation. This took some work to figure out how
     to do it without slowing the docs build and without creating people
     who don't have Rust installed, but Carlos got there

   - Move the loongarch and mips architecture documentation under
     Documentation/arch/

   - Some more maintainer documentation from Jakub

  ... plus the usual assortment of updates, translations, and fixes"

* tag 'docs-6.6' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (56 commits)
  Docu: genericirq.rst: fix irq-example
  input: docs: pxrc: remove reference to phoenix-sim
  Documentation: serial-console: Fix literal block marker
  docs/mm: remove references to hmm_mirror ops and clean typos
  docs/zh_CN: correct regi_chg(),regi_add() to region_chg(),region_add()
  Documentation: Fix typos
  Documentation/ABI: Fix typos
  scripts: kernel-doc: fix macro handling in enums
  scripts: kernel-doc: parse DEFINE_DMA_UNMAP_[ADDR|LEN]
  Documentation: riscv: Update boot image header since EFI stub is supported
  Documentation: riscv: Add early boot document
  Documentation: arm: Add bootargs to the table of added DT parameters
  docs: kernel-parameters: Refer to the correct bitmap function
  doc: update params of memhp_default_state=
  docs: Add book to process/kernel-docs.rst
  docs: sparse: fix invalid link addresses
  docs: vfs: clean up after the iterate() removal
  docs: Add a section on surveys to the researcher guidelines
  docs: move mips under arch
  docs: move loongarch under arch
  ...
2023-08-30 20:05:42 -07:00
Darrick J. Wong 19e13b0a6d docs: add maintainer entry profile for XFS
Create a new document to list what I think are (within the scope of XFS)
our shared goals and community roles.  Since I will be stepping down
shortly, I feel it's important to write down somewhere all the hats that
I have been wearing for the past six years.

Also, document important extra details about how to contribute to XFS.

Cc: corbet@lwn.net
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Chandan Babu R <chandan.babu@oracle.com>
2023-08-10 07:47:53 -07:00
Jakub KicinskiandJonathan Corbet 4454d38261 docs: maintainer: document expectations of small time maintainers
We appear to have a gap in our process docs. We go into detail
on how to contribute code to the kernel, and how to be a subsystem
maintainer. I can't find any docs directed towards the thousands
of small scale maintainers, like folks maintaining a single driver
or a single network protocol.

Document our expectations and best practices. I'm hoping this doc
will be particularly useful to set expectations with HW vendors.

Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <simon.horman@corigine.com>
Reviewed-by: Martin Habets <habetsm.xilinx@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@microchip.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230719183225.1827100-1-kuba@kernel.org
2023-07-21 13:47:10 -06:00
Jakub KicinskiandJonathan Corbet 3afd89a459 docs: maintainers: add missing 's' in https for the base lore link
The example and the git hook use HTTPS but the text for some
reason links to the non-SSL version.

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230713230510.1505201-1-kuba@kernel.org
2023-07-14 12:32:44 -06:00
Jonathan Corbet 75c33a0131 docs: Slight maintainer's guide decrufting
Get rid of some markup cruft and unneeded labels in a pair of maintainer's
manual documents.  No wording changes.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2023-07-14 12:31:26 -06:00
Jakub KicinskiandJonathan Corbet 803fda1707 docs: maintainers: mention tag -s for signed tags
The documentation talks about -u and how to configure the default
key. It does not mention that once the default key is set one
should use the -s flag. Which is likely what most people end up
using.

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <20230713230606.1505458-1-kuba@kernel.org>
2023-07-14 12:18:49 -06:00
Johannes BergandJonathan Corbet 2bb19e740e Documentation: update git configuration for Link: tag
The latest version of git (2.41.0) changed the spelling
of Message-Id to Message-ID. Adjust the perl script here
to accept both spellings.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Tested-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230619115533.981f6abaca01.I1960c39b1d61e8514afcef4806a450a209133187@changeid
2023-06-21 09:15:15 -06:00
Uwe Kleine-KönigandJonathan Corbet a414684e3b docs: rebasing-and-merging: Drop wrong statement about git
The "^0" syntax is no longer needed to fast-forward to a mainline commit;
take that out and add --ff-only to force an error if fast-forward is not
possible.

Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <uwe@kleine-koenig.org>
[jc: rewrote changelog]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230228134657.1797871-1-u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2023-03-07 10:26:22 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig 8ca4fc323d docs, nvme: add a feature and quirk policy document
This adds a document about what specification features are supported by
the Linux NVMe driver, and what qualifies for a quirk if an implementation
has problems following the specification.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2022-12-28 05:37:12 -10:00
Linus Torvalds b4a5ea09b2 Merge tag 'docs-5.18-2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux
Pull more documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
 "Some late-arriving documentation improvements.

  This is mostly build-system fixes from Mauro and Akira; I also took
  the liberty of dropping in my 'messy diffstat' document"

* tag 'docs-5.18-2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux:
  docs: Add a document on how to fix a messy diffstat
  docs: sphinx/requirements: Limit jinja2<3.1
  Documentation: kunit: Fix cross-referencing warnings
  scripts/kernel-doc: change the line number meta info
  scripts/get_abi: change the file/line number meta info
  docs: kernel_include.py: add sphinx build dependencies
  docs: kernel_abi.py: add sphinx build dependencies
  docs: kernel_feat.py: add build dependencies
  scripts/get_feat.pl: allow output the parsed file names
  docs: kfigure.py: Don't warn of missing PDF converter in 'make htmldocs'
  Documentation: Fix duplicate statement about raw_spinlock_t type
2022-03-31 12:10:42 -07:00
Jonathan Corbet 022bb490c7 docs: Add a document on how to fix a messy diffstat
A branch with merges in will sometimes create a diffstat containing a lot
of unrelated work at "git request-pull" time.  Create a document based on
Linus's advice (found in the links below) and add it to the maintainer
manual in the hope of saving some wear on Linus's keyboard going forward.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wg3wXH2JNxkQi+eLZkpuxqV+wPiHhw_Jf7ViH33Sw7PHA@mail.gmail.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wgXbSa8yq8Dht8at+gxb_idnJ7X5qWZQWRBN4_CUPr=eQ@mail.gmail.com/
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2022-03-30 13:45:15 -06:00
Alex Williamson f621eb13fa vfio-pci: Provide reviewers and acceptance criteria for variant drivers
Device specific extensions for devices exposed to userspace through
the vfio-pci-core library open both new functionality and new risks.
Here we attempt to provided formalized requirements and expectations
to ensure that future drivers both collaborate in their interaction
with existing host drivers, as well as receive additional reviews
from community members with experience in this area.

Acked-by: Shameer Kolothum <shameerali.kolothum.thodi@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Yishai Hadas <yishaih@nvidia.com>
Acked-by: Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/164736509088.181560.2887686123582116702.stgit@omen
Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
2022-03-17 09:57:11 -06:00
Thorsten LeemhuisandJonathan Corbet a9d85efb25 docs: use the lore redirector everywhere
Change all links from using the lkml redirector to the lore redirector,
as the kernel.org admin recently indicated: we shouldn't be using
lkml.kernel.org anymore because the domain can create confusion, as it
indicates it is only valid for messages sent to the LKML; the convention
has been to use https://lore.kernel.org/r/msgid for this reason.

In this process also change three links from using http to https.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211006170025.qw3glxvocczfuhar@meerkat.local
CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
CC: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
CC: Hu Haowen <src.res@email.cn>
CC: Alex Shi <alexs@kernel.org>
CC: Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@vaga.pv.it>
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info>
Reviewed-by: Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/5bb55bac6ba10fafab19bf2b21572dd0e2f8cea2.1633593385.git.linux@leemhuis.info
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2021-10-12 13:58:19 -06:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 86ee6729c9 media: add a subsystem profile documentation
Document the basic policies of the media subsystem profile.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2021-03-22 08:56:42 +01:00
Drew DeVaultandJonathan Corbet 4ebdf7be21 Documentation/maintainer: rehome sign-off process
The repeated sign-offs necessary when a subsystem maintainer modifies an
incoming patch has been moved from submitting-patches.rst to
Documentation/maintainer, since the affairs of a subsystem maintainer
are not especially relevant to someone reading a guide for how to submit
their first patch.

Signed-off-by: Drew DeVault <sir@cmpwn.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200903160545.83185-4-sir@cmpwn.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-09-03 15:39:24 -06:00
Lukas BulwahnandJonathan Corbet 003ad49f74 Documentation: add riscv entry in list of existing profiles
As long as there are only a few maintainer entry profiles, i.e., three
in v5.8, continue to maintain a complete a list of entries in the
maintainer handbook.

Complete the list by adding the RISC-V ARCHITECTURE maintainer entry
profile found in MAINTAINERS.

Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200815115728.15128-1-lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-08-24 17:19:07 -06:00