Thank you, Ted, for pointing to https://wiki.kernel.org/. Out of 29 wikis 8 are outdated. Here is a summary: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/The_Linux_Kernel/wikis Regards On Thu, 6 May 2021 at 17:18, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Thu, May 06, 2021 at 01:58:35PM +0300, Constantine Shulyupin wrote: > > Dear Linux kernel documentation writers and readers: > > > > Writing Linux documentation is a huge complex collaborative process. > > To make it better I invite you to contribute to > > https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/The_Linux_Kernel > > There are some wiki's that are available at *.wiki.kernel.org. For > example, ext4.wiki.kernel.org. We've largely abandoned it, in favor > of using Documentation in the kernel sources, because if you leave it > "updated by anyone", unless you have people constantly watching for > spam or trash updates which have to be reverted, it quickly becomes a > mess. Or you can keep tight control over who you give accounts to, > but then it doesn't get updated all that often. > > Keeping the documentation in sync with the kernel sources means it's > much more likely for the documentation to be updated when the kernel > is updated, and so for example we've migrated: > > https://ext4.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Ext4_Disk_Layout > > to: > > https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/filesystems/ext4/index.html > > with the sources available at: > > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4.git/tree/Documentation/filesystems/ext4 > > ... and been much happier with the result. > > Cheers, > > - Ted -- Constantine Shulyupin _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
