linux-kernel - Re: Documentation: add Kernel Driver Statement to the kernel

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Date:   Sat, 14 Oct 2017 18:14:13 +0200
From:   Wolfram Sang <wsa@...-dreams.de>
To:     "gregkh@...uxfoundation.org" <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>,
        linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Documentation: add Kernel Driver Statement to the kernel

On Fri, Oct 06, 2017 at 11:10:38AM +0200, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org wrote:
> Way back in 2008 we didn't have "robust" in-kernel documentation system,
> so the idea of putting something like the kernel driver statement in the
> kernel tree wasn't even imagined.  But now that has changed, so add the
> old document to the kernel source itself to allow for us to properly
> reference it in one canonical place (as the LF wiki keeps moving things
> around.)

Cool, I like it much to see it added to the kernel tree.

But could you explain what "robust" means in this context? And what
has changed which makes it "robust"? Sphinx?

I am interested in how such documents are handled best.


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