Re: [PATCH] docs: Remove kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt

[Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>]

On Wed, 20 Jul 2016 12:21:04 +0200
Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> wrote:

> In the transformation of this to sphinx we've forgotten to remove the
> old .txt file.

We didn't quite forget...Jani sent the patch but I didn't feel quite
right about applying it.  People "know" that kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt is
there, and various other docs had pointers to it.  So I've just committed
this instead, hope it's OK...

jon

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>From 8ed292fe864e9ed7d335515e97590122a56d7cba Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2016 16:43:41 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] docs: deprecate kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt

Now that the new Sphinx world order is taking over, the information in
kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt is outmoded.  I hate to remove it altogether,
since it's one of those files that people expect to find.  But we can add a
warning and fix all the other pointers to it.

Reminded-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
---
 Documentation/00-INDEX                     | 4 ++--
 Documentation/CodingStyle                  | 2 +-
 Documentation/development-process/4.Coding | 2 +-
 Documentation/kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt    | 3 +++
 Documentation/zh_CN/CodingStyle            | 2 +-
 5 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/00-INDEX b/Documentation/00-INDEX
index cd077ca0e1b8..cb9a6c6fa83b 100644
--- a/Documentation/00-INDEX
+++ b/Documentation/00-INDEX
@@ -255,10 +255,10 @@ kbuild/
 	- directory with info about the kernel build process.
 kdump/
 	- directory with mini HowTo on getting the crash dump code to work.
-kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt
-	- mini HowTo on generation and location of kernel documentation files.
 kernel-docs.txt
 	- listing of various WWW + books that document kernel internals.
+kernel-documentation.rst
+	- how to write and format reStructuredText kernel documentation
 kernel-parameters.txt
 	- summary listing of command line / boot prompt args for the kernel.
 kernel-per-CPU-kthreads.txt
diff --git a/Documentation/CodingStyle b/Documentation/CodingStyle
index 9a70ddd16584..a096836723ca 100644
--- a/Documentation/CodingStyle
+++ b/Documentation/CodingStyle
@@ -458,7 +458,7 @@ of the function, telling people what it does, and possibly WHY it does
 it.
 
 When commenting the kernel API functions, please use the kernel-doc format.
-See the files Documentation/kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt and scripts/kernel-doc
+See the files Documentation/kernel-documentation.rst and scripts/kernel-doc
 for details.
 
 Linux style for comments is the C89 "/* ... */" style.
diff --git a/Documentation/development-process/4.Coding b/Documentation/development-process/4.Coding
index e3cb6a56653a..9a3ee77cefb1 100644
--- a/Documentation/development-process/4.Coding
+++ b/Documentation/development-process/4.Coding
@@ -346,7 +346,7 @@ which have not been so documented, there is no harm in adding kerneldoc
 comments for the future; indeed, this can be a useful activity for
 beginning kernel developers.  The format of these comments, along with some
 information on how to create kerneldoc templates can be found in the file
-Documentation/kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt.
+Documentation/kernel-documentation.rst.
 
 Anybody who reads through a significant amount of existing kernel code will
 note that, often, comments are most notable by their absence.  Once again,
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt b/Documentation/kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt
index 78f69cdc9b3f..062e3af271b7 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+NOTE: this document is outdated and will eventually be removed.  See
+Documentation/kernel-documentation.rst for current information.
+
 kernel-doc nano-HOWTO
 =====================
 
diff --git a/Documentation/zh_CN/CodingStyle b/Documentation/zh_CN/CodingStyle
index bbb9d6ae05ca..12717791baac 100644
--- a/Documentation/zh_CN/CodingStyle
+++ b/Documentation/zh_CN/CodingStyle
@@ -399,7 +399,7 @@ C是一个简朴的语言，你的命名也应该这样。和 Modula-2 和 Pasca
 些事情的原因。
 
 当注释内核API函数时，请使用 kernel-doc 格式。请看
-Documentation/kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt和scripts/kernel-doc 以获得详细信息。
+Documentation/kernel-documentation.rst和scripts/kernel-doc 以获得详细信息。
 
 Linux的注释风格是 C89 “/* ... */” 风格。不要使用 C99 风格 “// ...” 注释。
 
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