mirror of
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
synced 2024-09-12 21:57:43 +00:00
9727a0144b
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>
118 lines
2.7 KiB
ReStructuredText
118 lines
2.7 KiB
ReStructuredText
.. The Linux Kernel documentation master file, created by
|
|
sphinx-quickstart on Fri Feb 12 13:51:46 2016.
|
|
You can adapt this file completely to your liking, but it should at least
|
|
contain the root `toctree` directive.
|
|
|
|
The Linux Kernel documentation
|
|
==============================
|
|
|
|
This is the top level of the kernel's documentation tree. Kernel
|
|
documentation, like the kernel itself, is very much a work in progress;
|
|
that is especially true as we work to integrate our many scattered
|
|
documents into a coherent whole. Please note that improvements to the
|
|
documentation are welcome; join the linux-doc list at vger.kernel.org if
|
|
you want to help out.
|
|
|
|
User-oriented documentation
|
|
---------------------------
|
|
|
|
The following manuals are written for *users* of the kernel — those who are
|
|
trying to get it to work optimally on a given system.
|
|
|
|
.. toctree::
|
|
:maxdepth: 2
|
|
|
|
admin-guide/index
|
|
|
|
Application-developer documentation
|
|
-----------------------------------
|
|
|
|
The user-space API manual gathers together documents describing aspects of
|
|
the kernel interface as seen by application developers.
|
|
|
|
.. toctree::
|
|
:maxdepth: 2
|
|
|
|
userspace-api/index
|
|
|
|
|
|
Introduction to kernel development
|
|
----------------------------------
|
|
|
|
These manuals contain overall information about how to develop the kernel.
|
|
The kernel community is quite large, with thousands of developers
|
|
contributing over the course of a year. As with any large community,
|
|
knowing how things are done will make the process of getting your changes
|
|
merged much easier.
|
|
|
|
.. toctree::
|
|
:maxdepth: 2
|
|
|
|
process/index
|
|
dev-tools/index
|
|
doc-guide/index
|
|
kernel-hacking/index
|
|
maintainer/index
|
|
|
|
Kernel API documentation
|
|
------------------------
|
|
|
|
These books get into the details of how specific kernel subsystems work
|
|
from the point of view of a kernel developer. Much of the information here
|
|
is taken directly from the kernel source, with supplemental material added
|
|
as needed (or at least as we managed to add it — probably *not* all that is
|
|
needed).
|
|
|
|
.. toctree::
|
|
:maxdepth: 2
|
|
|
|
driver-api/index
|
|
core-api/index
|
|
media/index
|
|
networking/index
|
|
input/index
|
|
gpu/index
|
|
security/index
|
|
sound/index
|
|
crypto/index
|
|
filesystems/index
|
|
|
|
Architecture-specific documentation
|
|
-----------------------------------
|
|
|
|
These books provide programming details about architecture-specific
|
|
implementation.
|
|
|
|
.. toctree::
|
|
:maxdepth: 2
|
|
|
|
sh/index
|
|
|
|
Korean translations
|
|
-------------------
|
|
|
|
.. toctree::
|
|
:maxdepth: 1
|
|
|
|
translations/ko_KR/index
|
|
|
|
Chinese translations
|
|
--------------------
|
|
|
|
.. toctree::
|
|
:maxdepth: 1
|
|
|
|
translations/zh_CN/index
|
|
|
|
Japanese translations
|
|
---------------------
|
|
|
|
.. toctree::
|
|
:maxdepth: 1
|
|
|
|
translations/ja_JP/index
|
|
|
|
Indices and tables
|
|
==================
|
|
|
|
* :ref:`genindex`
|