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From: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
To: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [TECH TOPIC] Documentation
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2020 12:08:48 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200618090848.GG6493@linux.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200609145353.628a342d@lwn.net>

On Tue, Jun 09, 2020 at 02:53:53PM -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> The long process of converting the kernel's documentation into RST is
> finally coming to an end...what has that bought us?  We have gone from a
> chaotic pile of incomplete, crufty, and un-integrated docs to a slightly
> better organized pile of incomplete, crufty, slightly better integrated
> docs.  Plus we have the infrastructure to make something better from here.
> 
> What are the next steps for kernel documentation?  What would we really
> like our docs to look like, and how might we find the resources to get
> them to that point?  What sorts of improvements to the build
> infrastructure would be useful?  I'll come with some ideas (some of which
> you've certainly heard before) but will be more interested in listening.

Antoher question I've been asking myself is what to do with good but old
guides. For instance, Documentation/virt/uml/user_mode_linux.rst
describes how to debug the kernel with gdb, but most of the code
references there are stale by now.

Another example is "Unreliable Guide To Hacking The Linux Kernel"
(Documentation/kernel-hacking/hacking.rst). It's really nicely written
by it is way too out of date.

> jon

-- 
Sincerely yours,
Mike.
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-06-18  9:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-06-09 20:53 [Ksummit-discuss] [TECH TOPIC] Documentation Jonathan Corbet
2020-06-10  8:49 ` Dan Carpenter
2020-06-11  8:21   ` Daniel Vetter
2020-06-11 14:48 ` Linus Walleij
2020-06-11 18:03   ` Shuah Khan
2020-06-11 18:28     ` Joe Perches
2020-06-11 19:44       ` Shuah Khan
2020-06-12  8:18         ` Laurent Pinchart
2020-06-12  9:19           ` Mike Rapoport
2020-06-12 10:58             ` Mark Brown
2020-06-12 15:48           ` Shuah Khan
2020-06-12  9:07       ` Mike Rapoport
2020-06-12 16:08         ` Shuah Khan
2020-06-13 16:42           ` Julia Lawall
2020-06-13 16:51             ` Joe Perches
2020-06-13 17:04               ` Julia Lawall
2020-06-14 13:23               ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-06-14 14:13                 ` Mike Rapoport
2020-06-15  9:46               ` Jani Nikula
2020-06-18  9:04               ` Mike Rapoport
2020-06-18 14:40                 ` Joe Perches
     [not found]                   ` <20200709122118.0ffaea91@coco.lan>
2020-07-09 11:42                     ` Joe Perches
2020-07-09 12:11                       ` Mike Rapoport
2020-07-09 16:59                         ` Joe Perches
2020-07-09 17:29                           ` Mike Rapoport
2020-07-09 17:57                             ` Andrew Lunn
     [not found]                               ` <104986.1594328429@turing-police>
2020-07-10  0:03                                 ` Joe Perches
2020-06-13 17:05           ` Laurent Pinchart
2020-06-18  9:08 ` Mike Rapoport [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2019-06-12 14:54 Jonathan Corbet
2019-06-12 18:22 ` Shuah Khan
2019-06-12 19:12   ` Martin K. Petersen
2019-06-12 19:43     ` Shuah Khan
2019-06-13 14:25   ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2019-06-14 21:40     ` Shuah Khan
2019-06-15  0:05       ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2019-06-17 10:12         ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2019-06-17 17:21           ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2019-06-12 20:33 ` Kate Stewart
2019-06-13 14:17   ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2019-06-13 14:57 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2019-06-13 18:48   ` Greg KH
2019-06-13 19:01     ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2019-06-20 18:36 ` Kees Cook
2019-06-20 19:28   ` Jonathan Corbet
2019-07-22 14:52 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab

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