On 09/12/2023 01:15, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
The process book is arguably the most important documentation we have; the
top three trafficked pages on docs.kernel.org are found here. Make a
beginning effort to impose a more useful organization on this page to ease
developers into the community.
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This is a version of the reworked page I showed briefly during the
kernel-summit documentation session. Perhaps more useful than the patch
itself is the rendered version of the page, which can be seen at:
https://static.lwn.net/kerneldoc/process/index.html
There is a lot to do to turn this book into a coherent set of
documentation, but this seems like a plausible step in that direction.
I think the reworked page is clearly an improvement.
The following is not really a comment on your patch specifically, but on
the page in general:
"""
Tools and technical guides for kernel developers
This is a collection of material that kernel developers should be
familiar with.
Minimal requirements to compile the Kernel
Programming Language
Linux kernel coding style
Kernel Maintainer PGP guide
Email clients info for Linux
Applying Patches To The Linux Kernel
Backporting and conflict resolution
Adding a New System Call
Why the "volatile" type class should not be used
(How to avoid) Botching up ioctls
"""
I think the last three links probably belong somewhere else -- for me,
those are not process-related but actual kernel-code-technical
information. The same goes for "Unaligned Memory Accesses" at the bottom
of the page.
How about putting these somewhere under kernel-hacking/ (AKA "Kernel
Hacking Guides")?
Vegard
