From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [TECH TOPIC] Documentation
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2020 11:49:06 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200610084906.GA4151@kadam> (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.
The truth is that I only ever read the documentation in front of the
function implementations. And LDD. ;)
There are some subsystems which document their functions in the
Documentation directory. For example, pm_request_resume() is documented
in Documentation/power/runtime_pm.rst where it describes why it might
return 1 on success. It would be awesome if we had an automated way to
find this.
I wish that there were a replacement for cscope which showed results in
a sorted order:
Global Implementation
Documentation
Local Implemenatations
(For me the struct device is my 995th result... Cscope is terrible.
But it's what I use as my default search in the kernel source. I just
would like to have one search for everything that would find
documentation as well).
regards,
dan carpenter
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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 [this message]
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
-- 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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