Basic documentation about virtio in the kernel and a small tutorial for
virtio drivers.
Tested on kernel/git/mst/vhost.git (linux-next)
Changes in v5:
- remove already merged patch
- grammar fixes
- clarify some API details
- rework example code
Changes in v4:
- reword the intro paragraphs
- grammar fixes
Changes in v3:
- fix commit message in patch 1
- minor additional fixes to virtio kerneldocs
- use proper Sphinx markup for links to references
Changes in v2:
- virtio spec links updated to v1.2
- simplify virtio.rst and remove most low level parts that are
already covered by the spec
- split the kerneldocs fixes to a separate patch
- remove :c:func: rst formatting
Ricardo Cañuelo (1):
docs: driver-api: virtio: virtio on Linux
Documentation/driver-api/index.rst | 1 +
Documentation/driver-api/virtio/index.rst | 11 +
Documentation/driver-api/virtio/virtio.rst | 144 +++++++++++++
.../virtio/writing_virtio_drivers.rst | 197 ++++++++++++++++++
MAINTAINERS | 1 +
5 files changed, 354 insertions(+)
create mode 100644 Documentation/driver-api/virtio/index.rst
create mode 100644 Documentation/driver-api/virtio/virtio.rst
create mode 100644 Documentation/driver-api/virtio/writing_virtio_drivers.rst
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