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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2017-07-04 06:13:25 +0200
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2017-07-04 06:13:25 +0200
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parentMerge tag 'char-misc-4.13-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/g... (diff)
parentscripts/kernel-doc: handle DECLARE_HASHTABLE (diff)
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Merge tag 'docs-4.13' of git://git.lwn.net/linux
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "There has been a fair amount of activity in the docs tree this time around. Highlights include: - Conversion of a bunch of security documentation into RST - The conversion of the remaining DocBook templates by The Amazing Mauro Machine. We can now drop the entire DocBook build chain. - The usual collection of fixes and minor updates" * tag 'docs-4.13' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (90 commits) scripts/kernel-doc: handle DECLARE_HASHTABLE Documentation: atomic_ops.txt is core-api/atomic_ops.rst Docs: clean up some DocBook loose ends Make the main documentation title less Geocities Docs: Use kernel-figure in vidioc-g-selection.rst Docs: fix table problems in ras.rst Docs: Fix breakage with Sphinx 1.5 and upper Docs: Include the Latex "ifthen" package doc/kokr/howto: Only send regression fixes after -rc1 docs-rst: fix broken links to dynamic-debug-howto in kernel-parameters doc: Document suitability of IBM Verse for kernel development Doc: fix a markup error in coding-style.rst docs: driver-api: i2c: remove some outdated information Documentation: DMA API: fix a typo in a function name Docs: Insert missing space to separate link from text doc/ko_KR/memory-barriers: Update control-dependencies example Documentation, kbuild: fix typo "minimun" -> "minimum" docs: Fix some formatting issues in request-key.rst doc: ReSTify keys-trusted-encrypted.txt doc: ReSTify keys-request-key.txt ...
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@@ -116,12 +116,11 @@ DevFS has been obsoleted in favour of udev
Linux documentation for functions is transitioning to inline
documentation via specially-formatted comments near their
-definitions in the source. These comments can be combined with the
-SGML templates in the Documentation/DocBook directory to make DocBook
-files, which can then be converted by DocBook stylesheets to PostScript,
-HTML, PDF files, and several other formats. In order to convert from
-DocBook format to a format of your choice, you'll need to install Jade as
-well as the desired DocBook stylesheets.
+definitions in the source. These comments can be combined with ReST
+files the Documentation/ directory to make enriched documentation, which can
+then be converted to PostScript, HTML, LaTex, ePUB and PDF files.
+In order to convert from ReST format to a format of your choice, you'll need
+Sphinx.
Util-linux
----------
@@ -323,12 +322,6 @@ PDF outputs, it is recommended to use version 1.4.6.
functionalities required for ``XeLaTex`` to work. For PDF output you'll also
need ``convert(1)`` from ImageMagick (https://www.imagemagick.org).
-Other tools
------------
-
-In order to produce documentation from DocBook, you'll also need ``xmlto``.
-Please notice, however, that we're currently migrating all documents to use
-``Sphinx``.
Getting updated software
========================
@@ -409,15 +402,6 @@ Quota-tools
- <http://sourceforge.net/projects/linuxquota/>
-DocBook Stylesheets
--------------------
-
-- <http://sourceforge.net/projects/docbook/files/docbook-dsssl/>
-
-XMLTO XSLT Frontend
--------------------
-
-- <http://cyberelk.net/tim/xmlto/>
Intel P6 microcode
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