From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: rpjday@crashcourse.ca (Robert P. J. Day) Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2015 07:38:22 -0400 (EDT) Subject: coming shortly: series of simple kernel questions i should know the answers to In-Reply-To: <20150401113531.GA13448@kroah.com> References: <20150401113531.GA13448@kroah.com> Message-ID: To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org List-Id: kernelnewbies.lists.kernelnewbies.org 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 Documentation/driver-model/ is somewhat out of date so i desperately 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to the in-kernel documentation -- under Documentation/driver-model, certainly, the "class.txt" file looks pretty badly out of date.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 -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ========================================================================