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authorMartin Kepplinger <martink@posteo.de>2018-03-16 16:57:07 +0100
committerJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>2018-03-21 16:00:39 +0100
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README: Improve documentation descriptions
"This file" indeed was moved once, but at some point "this file", the top-level README, becomes a file in itself. Now that time has come :) Let's describe how things are, and suggest reading "this file" first, "this file" simply being a the admin-guide README file, not a file that was once moved. Signed-off-by: Martin Kepplinger <martink@posteo.de> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Linux kernel
============
-This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst
-
-Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
-These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.
+There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
+be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
+Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.