On Sat, Jul 21, 2018 at 10:19:46AM -0400, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote: > On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 10:16:42AM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > This series converts the existing in-kernel ext4 documentation to rst > > format, links it in with the rest of the kernel's rst documetation, and > > then begins pulling in the contents of the on-disk layout page in the > > wiki. No changes are made to the text during the import process except > > to flatten the nested tables in the old wiki page, which were very > > difficult to maintain. > > > > I've built the docs and put them here, in case you hate reading rst: > > https://djwong.org/docs/kdoc/filesystems/ext4/index.html > > I've applied these patches, but I think we still need to do some work > figuring out how to integrate the ext4 documentation into the > Linux-doc tree as a whole. > > At the moment they are dropped in the middle of the "Kernel API > Documentation", by virtue of where the files are located. Most of the > ext4.rst file probably should be moved into the user's and > administrator's guide. I pondered that -- maybe leave all the ext4 stuff clustered together, but link to it from the actual user/admin guide section? > I'm not sure where the best place to put the ondisk documentation. > It's probably not the user's and administrator's guide, but the Kernel > API Documentation doesn't seem like the right place. > > But it should also make sense when people are browing the > Documentation source directories, too. > > I'm not sure what the best way to do that might be, but maybe some of > the folks on the linux-doc list will have some suggestions. I was thinking about having a separate top-level Filesystems section where we could put user/admin guides, on-disk documentation, etc. and leave the FS API section alone. --D > Cheers, > > - Ted > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
