coming shortly: series of simple kernel questions i should know the answers to

[rpjday@crashcourse.ca (Robert P. J. Day)]

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 Documentation/driver-model/ is somewhat out of date so i desperately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"class.txt" file looks pretty badly out of date.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?

rday

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