From: greg@kroah.com (Greg KH)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: coming shortly: series of simple kernel questions i should know the answers to
Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2015 13:41:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150401114154.GA13911@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.11.1504010736230.14028@localhost>
On Wed, Apr 01, 2015 at 07:38:22AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Apr 2015, Greg KH wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Apr 01, 2015 at 07:21:38AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > > a lot of the early questions will be based on clarifying details of
> > > the driver model, as the current documentation under
> > > Documentation/driver-model/ is somewhat out of date so i desperately
> > > need to put together something far more current.
> >
> > I'll gladly accept patches to fix up the in-kernel documentation for
> > the driver-model. A number of things have changed in this area over
> > the past years, especially in the power managment area.
> >
> > But really, almost no "normal" developer has to mess with the kernel
> > at this layer, it's rare that someone writes a new bus or subsystem.
> >
> > Ok, well, we add about one new one every kernel release, so there
> > would be 6 new developers a year that could benifit from better
> > documentation, not a huge number :)
>
> you might be surprised at how simple some of my questions are going
> to be. :-) and, yes, i'll see what i can contribute to the in-kernel
> documentation -- under Documentation/driver-model, certainly, the
> "class.txt" file looks pretty badly out of date. or is any of that
> content even being kept up to date given the DocBook content?
I don't remember, sorry, haven't looked at it in years.
greg k-h
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2015-04-01 11:21 coming shortly: series of simple kernel questions i should know the answers to Robert P. J. Day
2015-04-01 11:35 ` Greg KH
2015-04-01 11:38 ` Robert P. J. Day
2015-04-01 11:41 ` Greg KH [this message]
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