From: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com>
To: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] docs: Rewrite the front page
Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2022 11:28:08 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8735d6cjjb.fsf@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220901231632.518583-3-corbet@lwn.net>
On Thu, 01 Sep 2022, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> wrote:
> The front page is the entry point to the documentation, especially for
> people who read it online. It's a big mess of everything we could think to
> toss into it. Rewrite the page with an eye toward simplicity and making it
> easy for readers to get going toward what they really want to find.
>
> This is only a beginning, but it makes our docs more approachable than
> before.
\o/
> diff --git a/Documentation/subsystem-apis.rst b/Documentation/subsystem-apis.rst
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..f5d8bcc023c8
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/Documentation/subsystem-apis.rst
> @@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
> +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> +
> +==================================
> +Kernel subsystem API documentation
> +==================================
How about making this "Kernel subsystem documentation"?
For example the GPU documentation is so much more than just API
documentation. And the paragraph below is more generic too, "how
specific subsystems work".
BR,
Jani.
> +These books get into the details of how specific kernel subsystems work
> +from the point of view of a kernel developer. Much of the information here
> +is taken directly from the kernel source, with supplemental material added
> +as needed (or at least as we managed to add it — probably *not* all that is
> +needed).
--
Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Graphics Center
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-09-05 8:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-09-01 23:16 [PATCH 0/4] Rewrite the top-level index.rst Jonathan Corbet
2022-09-01 23:16 ` [PATCH 1/4] docs: promote the title of process/index.html Jonathan Corbet
2022-09-01 23:16 ` [PATCH 2/4] docs: Rewrite the front page Jonathan Corbet
2022-09-05 8:28 ` Jani Nikula [this message]
2022-09-01 23:16 ` [PATCH 3/4] docs: reconfigure the HTML left column Jonathan Corbet
2022-09-05 8:31 ` Jani Nikula
2022-09-01 23:16 ` [PATCH 4/4] docs: remove some index.rst cruft Jonathan Corbet
2022-09-03 10:03 ` [PATCH 0/4] Rewrite the top-level index.rst Thorsten Leemhuis
2022-09-03 13:25 ` Jonathan Corbet
2022-09-14 14:32 ` Kees Cook
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