commit 45e950c98412c002c47254507a199731315c7c2b Author: GeunSik,Lim Date: Wed May 13 10:49:47 2009 +0900 Append Section 9 info of man command We view description of the Linux kernel API with man command. For example, Fedoar9#> yum install kernel-doc* Fedora9#> man kobject_rename or Fedora9#> man kthread_create The man software will display "Section 9" like the "KOBJECT_RENAME(9)" info about linux kernel API. KOBJECT_RENAME(9) Driver Basics KOBJECT_RENAME(9) If most developers all over the world understand "9" meaning as linux kernel API, Append "Section 9" info in the "man-pages-3.21.Announce" file of man-pages-3.XX.tar.gz . ( http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/manpages/man-pages-3.XX.tar.gz ) Signed-off-by: GeunSik Lim diff --git a/man-pages-3.22.Announce b/man-pages-3.22.Announce index b52a38f..61f0f64 100644 --- a/man-pages-3.22.Announce +++ b/man-pages-3.22.Announce @@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ Here is a breakdown of what this distribution contains: Section 6 = games (intro only) Section 7 = overviews, conventions, macro packages, etc. Section 8 = system administration (intro, plus a few other pages) + Section 9 = linux kernel API (e.g., kthread_create, kthread_stop) This package contains no, or very few, section 1, 6, and 8 man pages because these should be distributed with the binaries they are written diff --git a/man9/intro.9 b/man9/intro.9 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5440579 --- /dev/null +++ b/man9/intro.9 @@ -0,0 +1,36 @@ +.\" Copyright (c) 1993 Michael Haardt (michael@moria.de), +.\" Fri Apr 2 11:32:09 MET DST 1993 +.\" +.\" This is free documentation; you can redistribute it and/or +.\" modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as +.\" published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of +.\" the License, or (at your option) any later version. +.\" +.\" The GNU General Public License's references to "object code" +.\" and "executables" are to be interpreted as the output of any +.\" document formatting or typesetting system, including +.\" intermediate and printed output. +.\" +.\" This manual is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, +.\" but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of +.\" MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the +.\" GNU General Public License for more details. +.\" +.\" You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public +.\" License along with this manual; if not, write to the Free +.\" Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111, +.\" USA. +.\" +.\" Modified Sat Jul 24 17:19:57 1993 by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu) +.\" Modified Wed May 24 10:39:14 2009 by GeunSik Lim (geunsik.lim@samsung.com) +.TH INTRO 9 2007-10-23 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual" +.SH NAME +intro \- Introduction to Linux kernel API +.SH DESCRIPTION +Section 9 of the manual describes all the Linux kernel API like kthread_create +available on the system. +.SH NOTES +.SS Authors and Copyright Conditions +Look at the header of the manual page source for the author(s) and copyright +conditions. +Note that these can be different from page to page!