From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, akpm <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] docbook: split kernel-api, add device-drivers book
Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2009 10:30:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090215093014.GD29094@uranus.ravnborg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090211162644.f3feb758.randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 04:26:44PM -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
>
> The kernel-api docbook was much larger than any of the others,
> so processing it took longer and needed some docbook extras in
> some cases, so split it into kernel-api (infrastructure etc.)
> and device drivers/device subsystems. This allows these docbooks
> to be generated in parallel. (This reduced the docbook processing
> time on my 4-proc system with make -j4 from about 5min:16sec to
> about 2min:01sec.)
>
> The chapters that were moved from kernel-api to device-drivers are:
>
> Driver Basics
> Device drivers infrastructure
> Parallel Port Devices
> Message-based devices
> Sound Devices
> 16x50 UART Driver
> Frame Buffer Library
> Input Subsystem
> Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI)
> I2C and SMBus Subsystem
>
> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
I like the split, and I assume you will carry the patch in a Documentation tree?
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Sam
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-15 9:28 UTC|newest]
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2009-02-12 0:26 [PATCH] docbook: split kernel-api, add device-drivers book Randy Dunlap
2009-02-15 9:30 ` Sam Ravnborg [this message]
2009-02-15 18:29 ` Randy Dunlap
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