Re: [PATCH 5/5] docs: 00-INDEX: document directories/files with no docs

[Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>]

Em Mon, 5 Dec 2016 14:25:40 -0700
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> escreveu:

> On Mon,  5 Dec 2016 09:41:45 -0200
> Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> wrote:
> 
> > There are a number of files/directories that don't contain
> > any documentation. They're related to ReST file conversion.
> > 
> > As a matter of completeness, since Makefile is also documented
> > there, add an entry for those files too.  
> 
> As promised, a couple of quibbles...
> 
> > Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
> > ---
> >  Documentation/00-INDEX | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
> >  1 file changed, 19 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/Documentation/00-INDEX b/Documentation/00-INDEX
> > index 272f5c4481f1..6d488509285d 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/00-INDEX
> > +++ b/Documentation/00-INDEX
> > @@ -14,6 +14,8 @@ Following translations are available on the WWW:
> >  	- this file.
> >  ABI/
> >  	- info on kernel <-> userspace ABI and relative interface stability.
> > +CodingStyle
> > +	- nothing here, just a pointer to process/coding-style.rst.
> >  DMA-API.txt
> >  	- DMA API, pci_ API & extensions for non-consistent memory machines.
> >  DMA-API-HOWTO.txt
> > @@ -39,6 +41,9 @@ Intel-IOMMU.txt
> >  Makefile
> >  	- This file does nothing. Removing it breaks make htmldocs and
> >  	  make distclean.
> > +Makefile.sphinx
> > +	- This file does nothing. Removing it breaks make htmldocs and
> > +	  make distclean.  
> 
> To say that this file "does nothing" is clearly incorrect - it controls how
> the sphinx build is done.

Basically, I repeated the same text as the one for Makefile. I'll
send a patch changing both texts ;)

> 
> >  PCI/
> >  	- info related to PCI drivers.
> >  RCU/
> > @@ -47,6 +52,8 @@ SAK.txt
> >  	- info on Secure Attention Keys.
> >  SM501.txt
> >  	- Silicon Motion SM501 multimedia companion chip
> > +SubmittingPatches
> > +	- nothing here, just a pointer to process/coding-style.rst.
> >  accounting/
> >  	- documentation on accounting and taskstats.
> >  acpi/
> > @@ -93,6 +100,8 @@ clk.txt
> >  	- info on the common clock framework
> >  cma/
> >  	- Continuous Memory Area (CMA) debugfs interface.
> > +conf.py
> > +	- nothing here. Just a configuration file for Sphinx.  
> 
> Again, it's not "nothing"; we could say it's not of interest to people who
> aren't doing things with the build system.

Ok.

> 
> >  connector/
> >  	- docs on the netlink based userspace<->kernel space communication mod.
> >  console/
> > @@ -135,6 +144,8 @@ digsig.txt
> >  	-info on the Digital Signature Verification API
> >  dma-buf-sharing.txt
> >  	- the DMA Buffer Sharing API Guide
> > +docutils.conf
> > +	- nothing here. Just a configuration file for docutils.
> >  dontdiff
> >  	- file containing a list of files that should never be diff'ed.
> >  driver-api/
> > @@ -201,6 +212,8 @@ ide/
> >  	- Information regarding the Enhanced IDE drive.
> >  iio/
> >  	- info on industrial IIO configfs support.
> > +index.rst
> > +	- main index for the documentation at ReST format.
> >  infiniband/
> >  	- directory with documents concerning Linux InfiniBand support.
> >  input/
> > @@ -307,6 +320,8 @@ nvdimm/
> >  	- info on non-volatile devices.
> >  nvmem/
> >  	- info on non volatile memory framework.
> > +output/
> > +	- default directory where html/LaTeX/pdf files will be written.
> >  padata.txt
> >  	- An introduction to the "padata" parallel execution API
> >  parisc/
> > @@ -387,6 +402,10 @@ sound/
> >  	- directory with info on sound card support.
> >  spi/
> >  	- overview of Linux kernel Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) support.
> > +sphinx/
> > +	- no doumentation here, just files required by Sphinx toolchain.  
> 
> Indeed there's no "doumentation" there :)  No documentation either.

Heh ;) I'll fix the typo.

> 
> > +sphinx-static/
> > +	- no doumentation here, just files required by Sphinx toolchain.
> >  static-keys.txt
> >  	- info on how static keys allow debug code in hotpaths via patching
> >  svga.txt  
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> jon



Thanks,
Mauro