The two files there describes a Kernel API feature, used to
support early userspace stuff. Prepare for moving them to
the kernel API book by converting to ReST format.
The conversion itself was quite trivial: just add/mark a few
titles as such, add a literal block markup, add a table markup
and a few blank lines, in order to make Sphinx to properly parse it.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/early-userspace/README | 3 +++
.../early-userspace/buffer-format.txt | 19 +++++++++++++------
2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/early-userspace/README b/Documentation/early-userspace/README
index 955d667dc87e..3deefb34046b 100644
--- a/Documentation/early-userspace/README
+++ b/Documentation/early-userspace/README
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+=======================
Early userspace support
=======================
@@ -26,6 +27,7 @@ archive to be used as the image or have the kernel build process build
the image from specifications.
CPIO ARCHIVE method
+-------------------
You can create a cpio archive that contains the early userspace image.
Your cpio archive should be specified in CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE and it
@@ -34,6 +36,7 @@ CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE and directory and file names are not allowed in
combination with a cpio archive.
IMAGE BUILDING method
+---------------------
The kernel build process can also build an early userspace image from
source parts rather than supplying a cpio archive. This method provides
diff --git a/Documentation/early-userspace/buffer-format.txt b/Documentation/early-userspace/buffer-format.txt
index e1fd7f9dad16..7f74e301fdf3 100644
--- a/Documentation/early-userspace/buffer-format.txt
+++ b/Documentation/early-userspace/buffer-format.txt
@@ -1,8 +1,10 @@
- initramfs buffer format
- -----------------------
+=======================
+initramfs buffer format
+=======================
- Al Viro, H. Peter Anvin
- Last revision: 2002-01-13
+Al Viro, H. Peter Anvin
+
+Last revision: 2002-01-13
Starting with kernel 2.5.x, the old "initial ramdisk" protocol is
getting {replaced/complemented} with the new "initial ramfs"
@@ -18,7 +20,8 @@ archive can be compressed using gzip(1). One valid version of an
initramfs buffer is thus a single .cpio.gz file.
The full format of the initramfs buffer is defined by the following
-grammar, where:
+grammar, where::
+
* is used to indicate "0 or more occurrences of"
(|) indicates alternatives
+ indicates concatenation
@@ -49,7 +52,9 @@ hexadecimal ASCII numbers fully padded with '0' on the left to the
full width of the field, for example, the integer 4780 is represented
by the ASCII string "000012ac"):
+============= ================== ==============================================
Field name Field size Meaning
+============= ================== ==============================================
c_magic 6 bytes The string "070701" or "070702"
c_ino 8 bytes File inode number
c_mode 8 bytes File mode and permissions
@@ -65,6 +70,7 @@ c_rmin 8 bytes Minor part of device node reference
c_namesize 8 bytes Length of filename, including final \0
c_chksum 8 bytes Checksum of data field if c_magic is 070702;
otherwise zero
+============= ================== ==============================================
The c_mode field matches the contents of st_mode returned by stat(2)
on Linux, and encodes the file type and file permissions.
@@ -82,7 +88,8 @@ If the filename is "TRAILER!!!" this is actually an end-of-archive
marker; the c_filesize for an end-of-archive marker must be zero.
-*** Handling of hard links
+Handling of hard links
+======================
When a nondirectory with c_nlink > 1 is seen, the (c_maj,c_min,c_ino)
tuple is looked up in a tuple buffer. If not found, it is entered in
--
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