On 27.09.22 18:05, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > Readers looking for user-oriented information may benefit from it. > > Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx> > --- > Documentation/index.rst | 2 ++ > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/Documentation/index.rst b/Documentation/index.rst > index 5a700548ae82..85eab6e990ab 100644 > --- a/Documentation/index.rst > +++ b/Documentation/index.rst > @@ -76,6 +76,8 @@ developers seeking information on the kernel's user-space APIs. > User-space tools <tools/index> > userspace-api/index > > +See also: the `Linux man pages <https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/>`_, > +which are kept separately from the kernel's own documentation. People following that link might be inclined to click on the section 1 and then find a lot of stuff that has nothing or not much to do with the kernel and then might feel lost. So how about a text like this instead: ``` See also the `Linux man pages <https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/>`_, as that where some of the kernel's documentation is kept. Among it are for example descriptions of Linux' `system calls <https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/dir_section_2.html>`_ and `devices <https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/dir_section_4.html>`_; the sections `files <https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/dir_section_5.html>`_ and `overviews, conventions, and miscellaneous <https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/dir_section_7.html>`_ also contain many documents dedicated to aspects of the kernel. ``` The last section (e.g. everything after the semicolon) might not be worth it. Ciao, Thorsten
