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* docs: maintainer: discourage taking conversations off-listJakub Kicinski2024-07-161-0/+11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Multiple vendors seem to prefer taking discussions off list, and ask contributors to work with them privately rather than just send patches to the list. I'd imagine this is because it's hard to fit in time for random developers popping up with features to review into packed schedule. From what I've seen "work in private" usually means someone on the company side will be assigned to handle the interaction, possibly months later. In worst case, the person scheduled to help the contributor takes over and writes the code themselves. This is not how the community is supposed to work. Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Reviewed-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240713235020.820910-1-kuba@kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240712144903.392284-1-kuba@kernel.org
* Docs/maintainer/maintainer-entry-profile: add DAMON maintainer profileSeongJae Park2024-06-271-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | DAMON has its maintainer entry profile document, but it's not listed on the existing profiles section of maintainer-entry-profile.rst. Add it. Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240624185312.94537-7-sj@kernel.org
* docs: maintainer: add existing SoC and netdev profilesKrzysztof Kozlowski2024-02-051-0/+3
| | | | | | | | Extend the list of maintainer profiles with SoC and netdev. Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240131125351.123509-1-krzysztof.kozlowski@linaro.org
* Documentation: xfs: consolidate XFS docs into its own subdirectoryBagas Sanjaya2023-12-071-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | XFS docs are currently in upper-level Documentation/filesystems. Although these are currently 4 docs, they are already outstanding as a group and can be moved to its own subdirectory. Consolidate them into Documentation/filesystems/xfs/. Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Bill O'Donnell <bodonnel@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Chandan Babu R <chandanbabu@kernel.org>
* docs: move riscv under archCosta Shulyupin2023-10-101-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | and fix all in-tree references. Architecture-specific documentation is being moved into Documentation/arch/ as a way of cleaning up the top-level documentation directory and making the docs hierarchy more closely match the source hierarchy. Signed-off-by: Costa Shulyupin <costa.shul@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@microchip.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230930185354.3034118-1-costa.shul@redhat.com
* Merge tag 'docs-6.6' of git://git.lwn.net/linuxLinus Torvalds2023-08-314-24/+172
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "Documentation work keeps chugging along; this includes: - Work from Carlos Bilbao to integrate rustdoc output into the generated HTML documentation. This took some work to figure out how to do it without slowing the docs build and without creating people who don't have Rust installed, but Carlos got there - Move the loongarch and mips architecture documentation under Documentation/arch/ - Some more maintainer documentation from Jakub ... plus the usual assortment of updates, translations, and fixes" * tag 'docs-6.6' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (56 commits) Docu: genericirq.rst: fix irq-example input: docs: pxrc: remove reference to phoenix-sim Documentation: serial-console: Fix literal block marker docs/mm: remove references to hmm_mirror ops and clean typos docs/zh_CN: correct regi_chg(),regi_add() to region_chg(),region_add() Documentation: Fix typos Documentation/ABI: Fix typos scripts: kernel-doc: fix macro handling in enums scripts: kernel-doc: parse DEFINE_DMA_UNMAP_[ADDR|LEN] Documentation: riscv: Update boot image header since EFI stub is supported Documentation: riscv: Add early boot document Documentation: arm: Add bootargs to the table of added DT parameters docs: kernel-parameters: Refer to the correct bitmap function doc: update params of memhp_default_state= docs: Add book to process/kernel-docs.rst docs: sparse: fix invalid link addresses docs: vfs: clean up after the iterate() removal docs: Add a section on surveys to the researcher guidelines docs: move mips under arch docs: move loongarch under arch ...
| * docs: maintainer: document expectations of small time maintainersJakub Kicinski2023-07-212-0/+156
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We appear to have a gap in our process docs. We go into detail on how to contribute code to the kernel, and how to be a subsystem maintainer. I can't find any docs directed towards the thousands of small scale maintainers, like folks maintaining a single driver or a single network protocol. Document our expectations and best practices. I'm hoping this doc will be particularly useful to set expectations with HW vendors. Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Reviewed-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <simon.horman@corigine.com> Reviewed-by: Martin Habets <habetsm.xilinx@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@microchip.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230719183225.1827100-1-kuba@kernel.org
| * docs: maintainers: add missing 's' in https for the base lore linkJakub Kicinski2023-07-141-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The example and the git hook use HTTPS but the text for some reason links to the non-SSL version. Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230713230510.1505201-1-kuba@kernel.org
| * docs: Slight maintainer's guide decruftingJonathan Corbet2023-07-142-24/+15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Get rid of some markup cruft and unneeded labels in a pair of maintainer's manual documents. No wording changes. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
| * docs: maintainers: mention tag -s for signed tagsJakub Kicinski2023-07-141-3/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The documentation talks about -u and how to configure the default key. It does not mention that once the default key is set one should use the -s flag. Which is likely what most people end up using. Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <20230713230606.1505458-1-kuba@kernel.org>
* | docs: add maintainer entry profile for XFSDarrick J. Wong2023-08-101-0/+1
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | Create a new document to list what I think are (within the scope of XFS) our shared goals and community roles. Since I will be stepping down shortly, I feel it's important to write down somewhere all the hats that I have been wearing for the past six years. Also, document important extra details about how to contribute to XFS. Cc: corbet@lwn.net Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Chandan Babu R <chandan.babu@oracle.com>
* Documentation: update git configuration for Link: tagJohannes Berg2023-06-211-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | The latest version of git (2.41.0) changed the spelling of Message-Id to Message-ID. Adjust the perl script here to accept both spellings. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Tested-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230619115533.981f6abaca01.I1960c39b1d61e8514afcef4806a450a209133187@changeid
* docs: rebasing-and-merging: Drop wrong statement about gitUwe Kleine-König2023-03-071-5/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | The "^0" syntax is no longer needed to fast-forward to a mainline commit; take that out and add --ff-only to force an error if fast-forward is not possible. Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <uwe@kleine-koenig.org> [jc: rewrote changelog] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230228134657.1797871-1-u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
* docs, nvme: add a feature and quirk policy documentChristoph Hellwig2022-12-281-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | This adds a document about what specification features are supported by the Linux NVMe driver, and what qualifies for a quirk if an implementation has problems following the specification. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Acked-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
* Merge tag 'docs-5.18-2' of git://git.lwn.net/linuxLinus Torvalds2022-03-312-0/+97
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Pull more documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "Some late-arriving documentation improvements. This is mostly build-system fixes from Mauro and Akira; I also took the liberty of dropping in my 'messy diffstat' document" * tag 'docs-5.18-2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: docs: Add a document on how to fix a messy diffstat docs: sphinx/requirements: Limit jinja2<3.1 Documentation: kunit: Fix cross-referencing warnings scripts/kernel-doc: change the line number meta info scripts/get_abi: change the file/line number meta info docs: kernel_include.py: add sphinx build dependencies docs: kernel_abi.py: add sphinx build dependencies docs: kernel_feat.py: add build dependencies scripts/get_feat.pl: allow output the parsed file names docs: kfigure.py: Don't warn of missing PDF converter in 'make htmldocs' Documentation: Fix duplicate statement about raw_spinlock_t type
| * docs: Add a document on how to fix a messy diffstatJonathan Corbet2022-03-302-0/+97
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | A branch with merges in will sometimes create a diffstat containing a lot of unrelated work at "git request-pull" time. Create a document based on Linus's advice (found in the links below) and add it to the maintainer manual in the hope of saving some wear on Linus's keyboard going forward. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wg3wXH2JNxkQi+eLZkpuxqV+wPiHhw_Jf7ViH33Sw7PHA@mail.gmail.com/ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wgXbSa8yq8Dht8at+gxb_idnJ7X5qWZQWRBN4_CUPr=eQ@mail.gmail.com/ Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
* | vfio-pci: Provide reviewers and acceptance criteria for variant driversAlex Williamson2022-03-171-0/+1
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Device specific extensions for devices exposed to userspace through the vfio-pci-core library open both new functionality and new risks. Here we attempt to provided formalized requirements and expectations to ensure that future drivers both collaborate in their interaction with existing host drivers, as well as receive additional reviews from community members with experience in this area. Acked-by: Shameer Kolothum <shameerali.kolothum.thodi@huawei.com> Reviewed-by: Yishai Hadas <yishaih@nvidia.com> Acked-by: Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com> Acked-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/164736509088.181560.2887686123582116702.stgit@omen Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
* docs: use the lore redirector everywhereThorsten Leemhuis2021-10-121-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Change all links from using the lkml redirector to the lore redirector, as the kernel.org admin recently indicated: we shouldn't be using lkml.kernel.org anymore because the domain can create confusion, as it indicates it is only valid for messages sent to the LKML; the convention has been to use https://lore.kernel.org/r/msgid for this reason. In this process also change three links from using http to https. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211006170025.qw3glxvocczfuhar@meerkat.local CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> CC: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> CC: Hu Haowen <src.res@email.cn> CC: Alex Shi <alexs@kernel.org> CC: Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@vaga.pv.it> Signed-off-by: Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info> Reviewed-by: Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/5bb55bac6ba10fafab19bf2b21572dd0e2f8cea2.1633593385.git.linux@leemhuis.info Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
* media: add a subsystem profile documentationMauro Carvalho Chehab2021-03-221-0/+1
| | | | | | Document the basic policies of the media subsystem profile. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
* Documentation/maintainer: rehome sign-off processDrew DeVault2020-09-032-0/+51
| | | | | | | | | | | | The repeated sign-offs necessary when a subsystem maintainer modifies an incoming patch has been moved from submitting-patches.rst to Documentation/maintainer, since the affairs of a subsystem maintainer are not especially relevant to someone reading a guide for how to submit their first patch. Signed-off-by: Drew DeVault <sir@cmpwn.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200903160545.83185-4-sir@cmpwn.com Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
* Documentation: add riscv entry in list of existing profilesLukas Bulwahn2020-08-251-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | As long as there are only a few maintainer entry profiles, i.e., three in v5.8, continue to maintain a complete a list of entries in the maintainer handbook. Complete the list by adding the RISC-V ARCHITECTURE maintainer entry profile found in MAINTAINERS. Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200815115728.15128-1-lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
* Documentation: maintainer-entry-profile: eliminate duplicated wordRandy Dunlap2020-07-131-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | Drop the doubled word "have". Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200707180414.10467-13-rdunlap@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
* Documentation: fixes to the maintainer-entry-profile templateRandy Dunlap2020-06-011-6/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Do some wordsmithing and copy editing on the maintainer-entry-profile profile (template, guide): - fix punctuation - fix some wording - use "-rc" consistently Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/fbaa9b67-e7b8-d5e8-ecbb-6ae068234880@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
* Add a maintainer entry profile for documentationJonathan Corbet2020-01-241-0/+1
| | | | | | | | Documentation should lead by example, so here's a basic maintainer entry profile for this subsystem. Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
* docs: fix up the maintainer profile documentJonathan Corbet2019-11-251-0/+15
| | | | | | | | Add blank lines where needed to get the document to render properly. Also add a TOC of existing profiles just so that the nvdimm profile is linked into the toctree, is discoverable, and doesn't generate a warning. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
* Maintainer Handbook: Maintainer Entry ProfileDan Williams2019-11-252-0/+88
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | As presented at the 2018 Linux Plumbers conference [1], the Maintainer Entry Profile (formerly Subsystem Profile) is proposed as a way to reduce friction between committers and maintainers and encourage conversations amongst maintainers about common best practices. While coding-style, submit-checklist, and submitting-drivers lay out some common expectations there remain local customs and maintainer preferences that vary by subsystem. The profile contains documentation of some of the common policy questions a contributor might have that are local to the subsystem / device-driver, special considerations for the subsystem, or other guidelines that are otherwise not covered by the top-level process documents. The initial and hopefully non-controversial headings in the profile are: Overview: General introduction to how the subsystem operates Submit Checklist Addendum: Mechanical items that gate submission staging, or other requirements that gate patch acceptance. Key Cycle Dates: - Last -rc for new feature submissions: Expected lead time for submissions - Last -rc to merge features: Deadline for merge decisions Resubmit Cadence: When and preferred method to follow up with the maintainer Note that coding style guidelines are explicitly left out of this list. See Documentation/maintainer/maintainer-entry-profile.rst for more details, and a follow-on example profile for the libnvdimm subsystem. [1]: https://linuxplumbersconf.org/event/2/contributions/59/ Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org> Cc: Steve French <stfrench@microsoft.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Tobin C. Harding <me@tobin.cc> Cc: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net> Cc: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Cc: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com> Cc: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/157462919309.1729495.10585699280061787229.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
* Documentation: Document how to get links with git amLinus Walleij2019-11-191-0/+30
| | | | | | | | | | | This adds Kees' clever apply hook to the kernel documentation so it can be easily references when needed. Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Link: https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/ksummit-discuss/2019-July/006608.html Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191118223019.81708-1-linus.walleij@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
* docs: Fix typo on pull requests guideMarco Villegas2019-08-121-1/+1
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Marco Villegas <git@marvil07.net> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
* docs: remove extra conf.py filesMauro Carvalho Chehab2019-07-171-10/+0
| | | | | | | Now that the latex_documents are handled automatically, we can remove those extra conf.py files. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
* docs: Add a document on repository managementJonathan Corbet2019-06-182-0/+227
| | | | | | | | | Every merge window seems to involve at least one episode where subsystem maintainers don't manage their trees as Linus would like. Document the expectations so that at least he has something to point people to. Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
* docs: Fix more broken referencesMauro Carvalho Chehab2018-06-151-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | As we move stuff around, some doc references are broken. Fix some of them via this script: ./scripts/documentation-file-ref-check --fix Manually checked that produced results are valid. Acked-by: Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@gmail.com> Acked-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Acked-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Acked-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> Acked-by: Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org> Acked-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
* docs: Add an intro note to the maintainers handbookJonathan Corbet2017-12-111-0/+4
| | | | | | | ...just enough to say what the purpose is and to solicit more contributions. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
* doc: add maintainer bookTobin C. Harding2017-12-114-0/+232
There is currently very little documentation in the kernel on maintainer level tasks. In particular there are no documents on creating pull requests to submit to Linus. Quoting Greg Kroah-Hartman on LKML: Anyway, this actually came up at the kernel summit / maintainer meeting a few weeks ago, in that "how do I make a good pull request to Linus" is something we need to document. Here's what I do, and it seems to work well, so maybe we should turn it into the start of the documentation for how to do it. (quote references: kernel summit, Europe 2017) Create a new kernel documentation book 'how to be a maintainer' (suggested by Jonathan Corbet). Add chapters on 'configuring git' and 'creating a pull request'. Most of the content was written by Linus Torvalds and Greg Kroah-Hartman in discussion on LKML. This is stated at the start of one of the chapters and the original email thread is referenced in 'pull-requests.rst'. Signed-off-by: Tobin C. Harding <me@tobin.cc> Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>