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docs: split up the driver book We don't need to keep it as a single large file anymore; split it up so that it is easier to manage and the individual sections can be read directly as plain files. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-08-20 13:17:32 -06:00
docs: Get module_init() docs from module.h The docs build complains: ./include/linux/init.h:1: warning: no structured comments found The problem is that the comments in question were moved to module.h in commit 0fd972a7d91d (module: relocate module_init from init.h to module.h). Fix basics.rst to match. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2017-07-17 13:55:58 -06:00
docs: split up the driver book We don't need to keep it as a single large file anymore; split it up so that it is easier to manage and the individual sections can be read directly as plain files. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-08-20 13:17:32 -06:00
driver-api/basics.rst: add device table header The structs there at device table are used by other documentation at the Kernel. So, add it to the driver API. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2017-04-05 10:22:56 -03:00
docs: basics.rst: avoid duplicated C function declaration pci_device_id is already documented at pci.rst: ./Documentation/driver-api/basics.rst: WARNING: Duplicate C declaration, also defined in 'PCI/pci'. Declaration is 'pci_device_id'. The kstrtol and kstrtoul are already at kernel-api: ./Documentation/driver-api/basics.rst: WARNING: Duplicate C declaration, also defined in 'core-api/kernel-api'. Declaration is 'kstrtoul'. ./Documentation/driver-api/basics.rst: WARNING: Duplicate C declaration, also defined in 'core-api/kernel-api'. Declaration is 'kstrtol'. And the printk is already defined at printk-basics: ./Documentation/driver-api/basics.rst: WARNING: Duplicate C declaration, also defined in 'core-api/printk-basics'. Declaration is 'printk'. So, exclude those identifiers from basirs.rst. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2020-09-29 12:51:00 +02:00
driver-api/basics.rst: add device table header The structs there at device table are used by other documentation at the Kernel. So, add it to the driver API. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2017-04-05 10:22:56 -03:00
docs: time: make separate section for time and timers Give time & timer APIs their own section and begin adding entries to that section. Move hrtimers immediately after this new section so that they are all together. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Cc: John Stultz <jstultz@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230704052405.5089-1-rdunlap@infradead.org
2023-07-03 22:24:03 -07:00
docs: split up the driver book We don't need to keep it as a single large file anymore; split it up so that it is easier to manage and the individual sections can be read directly as plain files. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-08-20 13:17:32 -06:00
docs: time: make separate section for time and timers Give time & timer APIs their own section and begin adding entries to that section. Move hrtimers immediately after this new section so that they are all together. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Cc: John Stultz <jstultz@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230704052405.5089-1-rdunlap@infradead.org
2023-07-03 22:24:03 -07:00
docs: split up the driver book We don't need to keep it as a single large file anymore; split it up so that it is easier to manage and the individual sections can be read directly as plain files. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-08-20 13:17:32 -06:00
docs: time: make separate section for time and timers Give time & timer APIs their own section and begin adding entries to that section. Move hrtimers immediately after this new section so that they are all together. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Cc: John Stultz <jstultz@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230704052405.5089-1-rdunlap@infradead.org
2023-07-03 22:24:03 -07:00
docs: split up the driver book We don't need to keep it as a single large file anymore; split it up so that it is easier to manage and the individual sections can be read directly as plain files. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-08-20 13:17:32 -06:00
docs: time: make separate section for time and timers Give time & timer APIs their own section and begin adding entries to that section. Move hrtimers immediately after this new section so that they are all together. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Cc: John Stultz <jstultz@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230704052405.5089-1-rdunlap@infradead.org
2023-07-03 22:24:03 -07:00
docs: split up the driver book We don't need to keep it as a single large file anymore; split it up so that it is easier to manage and the individual sections can be read directly as plain files. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-08-20 13:17:32 -06:00
docs: time: make separate section for time and timers Give time & timer APIs their own section and begin adding entries to that section. Move hrtimers immediately after this new section so that they are all together. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Cc: John Stultz <jstultz@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230704052405.5089-1-rdunlap@infradead.org
2023-07-03 22:24:03 -07:00
docs: split up the driver book We don't need to keep it as a single large file anymore; split it up so that it is easier to manage and the individual sections can be read directly as plain files. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-08-20 13:17:32 -06:00
docs: refcount_t documentation Some functions from refcount_t API provide different memory ordering guarantees that their atomic counterparts. This adds a document outlining these differences ( Documentation/core-api/refcount-vs-atomic.rst) as well as some other minor improvements. Signed-off-by: Elena Reshetova <elena.reshetova@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2017-12-05 12:46:35 +02:00
locking/atomic: docs: Add atomic operations to the driver basic API documentation Add the generated atomic headers to driver-api/basics.rst in order to provide documentation for the Linux kernel's atomic operations. At the same time, dtop the x86 atomic header, which provides kerneldoc comments for some arch_atomic*_*() operations. The arch_atomic*_*() operations are now purely an implenentation detail of the raw_atomic*_*() ops, and outside of implementing the atomics, code should use the raw_atomic*_*() forms. [Mark: add atomic-{instrumented,long}.h, update commit message] Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230605070124.3741859-27-mark.rutland@arm.com
2023-06-05 08:01:23 +01:00
docs: refcount_t documentation Some functions from refcount_t API provide different memory ordering guarantees that their atomic counterparts. This adds a document outlining these differences ( Documentation/core-api/refcount-vs-atomic.rst) as well as some other minor improvements. Signed-off-by: Elena Reshetova <elena.reshetova@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2017-12-05 12:46:35 +02:00
docs: split up the driver book We don't need to keep it as a single large file anymore; split it up so that it is easier to manage and the individual sections can be read directly as plain files. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-08-20 13:17:32 -06:00
Docs: driver-api/basics: add kobject_event interfaces Add the kernel-doc comments from lib/kobject_uevent.c to the "Kernel objects manipulation" section of driver API Basics. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael@kernel.org> Cc: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <20250509005538.685678-1-rdunlap@infradead.org>
2025-05-08 17:55:38 -07:00
docs: split up the driver book We don't need to keep it as a single large file anymore; split it up so that it is easier to manage and the individual sections can be read directly as plain files. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-08-20 13:17:32 -06:00
docs: Update documentation to avoid mentioning of kernel.h For several years, and still ongoing, the kernel.h is being split to smaller and narrow headers to avoid "including everything" approach which is bad in many ways. Since that, documentation missed a few required updates to align with that work. Do it here. Note, language translations are left untouched and if anybody willing to help, please provide path(es) based on the updated English variant. Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org> Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <20251126214709.2322314-1-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
2025-11-26 22:46:07 +01:00
docs: split up the driver book We don't need to keep it as a single large file anymore; split it up so that it is easier to manage and the individual sections can be read directly as plain files. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-08-20 13:17:32 -06:00
docs: basics.rst: avoid duplicated C function declaration pci_device_id is already documented at pci.rst: ./Documentation/driver-api/basics.rst: WARNING: Duplicate C declaration, also defined in 'PCI/pci'. Declaration is 'pci_device_id'. The kstrtol and kstrtoul are already at kernel-api: ./Documentation/driver-api/basics.rst: WARNING: Duplicate C declaration, also defined in 'core-api/kernel-api'. Declaration is 'kstrtoul'. ./Documentation/driver-api/basics.rst: WARNING: Duplicate C declaration, also defined in 'core-api/kernel-api'. Declaration is 'kstrtol'. And the printk is already defined at printk-basics: ./Documentation/driver-api/basics.rst: WARNING: Duplicate C declaration, also defined in 'core-api/printk-basics'. Declaration is 'printk'. So, exclude those identifiers from basirs.rst. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2020-09-29 12:51:00 +02:00
docs: split up the driver book We don't need to keep it as a single large file anymore; split it up so that it is easier to manage and the individual sections can be read directly as plain files. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-08-20 13:17:32 -06:00
docs: Update documentation to avoid mentioning of kernel.h For several years, and still ongoing, the kernel.h is being split to smaller and narrow headers to avoid "including everything" approach which is bad in many ways. Since that, documentation missed a few required updates to align with that work. Do it here. Note, language translations are left untouched and if anybody willing to help, please provide path(es) based on the updated English variant. Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org> Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <20251126214709.2322314-1-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
2025-11-26 22:46:07 +01:00
docs: split up the driver book We don't need to keep it as a single large file anymore; split it up so that it is easier to manage and the individual sections can be read directly as plain files. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-08-20 13:17:32 -06:00
docs: basics.rst: avoid duplicated C function declaration pci_device_id is already documented at pci.rst: ./Documentation/driver-api/basics.rst: WARNING: Duplicate C declaration, also defined in 'PCI/pci'. Declaration is 'pci_device_id'. The kstrtol and kstrtoul are already at kernel-api: ./Documentation/driver-api/basics.rst: WARNING: Duplicate C declaration, also defined in 'core-api/kernel-api'. Declaration is 'kstrtoul'. ./Documentation/driver-api/basics.rst: WARNING: Duplicate C declaration, also defined in 'core-api/kernel-api'. Declaration is 'kstrtol'. And the printk is already defined at printk-basics: ./Documentation/driver-api/basics.rst: WARNING: Duplicate C declaration, also defined in 'core-api/printk-basics'. Declaration is 'printk'. So, exclude those identifiers from basirs.rst. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2020-09-29 12:51:00 +02:00
docs: split up the driver book We don't need to keep it as a single large file anymore; split it up so that it is easier to manage and the individual sections can be read directly as plain files. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-08-20 13:17:32 -06:00