Since 2014, you can't successfully build kernels with GNU Make version
3.80. Example errors:

  $ git describe
  v4.11
  $ make --version | head -1
  GNU Make 3.80
  $ make defconfig
    HOSTCC  scripts/basic/fixdep
  scripts/Makefile.host:135: *** missing separator.  Stop.
  make: *** [defconfig] Error 2
  $ make ARCH=arm64 help
  arch/arm64/Makefile:43: *** unterminated call to function `warning': missing `)'.  Stop.
  $ make help >/dev/null
  ./Documentation/Makefile.sphinx:25: Extraneous text after `else' directive
  ./Documentation/Makefile.sphinx:31: *** only one `else' per conditional.  Stop.
  make: *** [help] Error 2

The first breakage was introduced by commit c8589d1e ("kbuild:
handle multi-objs dependency appropriately").  Since then (i.e. v3.18),
GNU Make 3.80 has not been able to compile the kernel, but nobody has
ever complained aboutt (or noticed) it.

Even GNU Make 3.81 is more than 10 years old.  It would not hurt to
match the documentation with reality instead of fixing makefiles.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

In Documentation/process/4.Coding.rst there were a couple of paragraphs
that spilled over the 80 character line length. This was likely caused
when the document was converted to reStructuredText. Re-flow the
paragraphs and make the document references proper reStructuredText
:ref: links.

This also adds the appropriate reStructuredText file heading to
kernel-parameters.rst as referenced by the kernel-parameters link in
this patch.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Clayton <andrew@digital-domain.net>
Reviewed-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

A patch documenting how to specify which kernels a particular fix should
be backported to (seemingly) inadvertently added a minus sign after the
kernel version. This particular stable-tag format had never been used
prior to this patch, and was neither present when the patch in question
was first submitted (it was added in v2 without any comment).

Drop the minus sign to avoid any confusion.

Fixes: fdc81b79 ("stable_kernel_rules: Add clause about specification of kernel versions to patch.")
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

A patch documenting how to specify which kernels a particular fix should
be backported to (seemingly) inadvertently added a minus sign after the
kernel version. This particular stable-tag format had never been used
prior to this patch, and was neither present when the patch in question
was first submitted (it was added in v2 without any comment).

Drop the minus sign to avoid any confusion.

Fixes: fdc81b79 ("stable_kernel_rules: Add clause about specification of kernel versions to patch.")
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

As ftp.kernel.org is closed [0], this commit fixes dead URLs in
documents to use www.kernel.org instead.

[0] https://www.kernel.org/shutting-down-ftp-services.html



Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj38.park@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

The discussion pretty much concluded without objections, let's
document what we agreed on.

Cc'ing linux-doc for the new tag in Documentation/process/index.rst.

Acked-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Sean Paul <seanpaul@chromium.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>
Cc: Sean Paul <seanpaul@chromium.org>
Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Alex Deucher <alexdeucher@gmail.com>
Cc: Lukas Wunner <lukas@wunner.de>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>
Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20170321155228.30287-1-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch

This patch brings scalable figure, image handling and a concept to
embed *render* markups:

* DOT (http://www.graphviz.org

)
* SVG

For image handling use the 'image' replacement::

    .. kernel-image::  svg_image.svg
       :alt:    simple SVG image

For figure handling use the 'figure' replacement::

    .. kernel-figure::  svg_image.svg
       :alt:    simple SVG image

       SVG image example

Embed *render* markups (or languages) like Graphviz's **DOT** is
provided by the *render* directive.::

  .. kernel-render:: DOT
     :alt: foobar digraph
     :caption: Embedded **DOT** (Graphviz) code.

     digraph foo {
      "bar" -> "baz";
     }

The *render* directive is a concept to integrate *render* markups and
languages, yet supported markups:

* DOT: render embedded Graphviz's **DOT**
* SVG: render embedded Scalable Vector Graphics (**SVG**)

Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Tested-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Tested-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com> (v2 - v5)
Signed-off-by: Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@darmarit.de> (v1, v6)
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

This corrects a set of spelling mistakes, probably from an
automated conversion.

Signed-off-by: Sanjeev Gupta <ghane0@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

... and move to core-api folder.

Signed-off-by: Silvio Fricke <silvio.fricke@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

The original text was not clear if white space or other harmless patches
should be merged in -rc kernels.  The discussion at Kernel Summit said
that we should be more strict about sending regression fixes only.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

Having the kernel-documentation at the topmost level doesn't
allow generating a separate PDF file for it. Also, makes harder
to add extra contents. So, place it on a sub-dir.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

Commit 865a1caa ("CodingStyle: Clarify and complete chapter 7")
renamed the label "out_buffer" to "out_free_buffer", but missed to
change this line.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Reviewed-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

`Specific guidelines for the kernel documentation` section of
`kernel-documentation.rst` suggests to use ``~`` for subsection but
subsections in HOWTO is not marked in the format.  This commit marks
them in the format.

Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj38.park@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

This is ancient stuff and we don't do things this way anymore.  In the
absence of simply deleting the document, at least add a warning to it.

Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

This is crufty stuff and should maybe just be deleted, but I'm not quite
ready to do that yet.

Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

I believe this makes the page as a whole more approachable.

Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

The main goal here was to get the subsections to show in the TOC as they do
for all the other documents.  Also call out the DCO in the section title
since it's important.

Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

Put like documents together, with the essential ones at the top, and split
the TOC into sections.

Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

The index should only be included if the build of the sub-folder is done
with the html-builder (HTML output).

Signed-off-by: Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@darmarit.de>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

The previous patch renamed several files that are cross-referenced
along the Kernel documentation. Adjust the links to point to
the right places.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>

Add several documents to the development-process ReST book.

As we don't want renames, use symlinks instead, keeping those
documents on their original place.

Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>

As we'll type this a lot, after adding CodingStyle & friends,
let's rename the directory name to a shorter one.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>