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Message-Id: <20e533fb1b8e3d7332eb064178586082ec62d096.1473893776.git.mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Date:   Wed, 14 Sep 2016 20:05:46 -0300
From:   Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...pensource.com>
To:     Linux Doc Mailing List <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:     Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...pensource.com>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...radead.org>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>,
        Peter Loeffler <peter.loeffler@...uz.at>,
        Doug Smythies <doug.smythies@...il.com>,
        Philippe Loctaux <phil@...lippeloctaux.com>,
        Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@...marit.de>,
        Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@...ux.intel.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 01/17] HOWTO.rst: update information about generating documentation

The description there are pre-Sphinx. Update it to cover the
new way.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...pensource.com>
---
 Documentation/development-process/HOWTO.rst | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/development-process/HOWTO.rst b/Documentation/development-process/HOWTO.rst
index 9a06de24b755..88211283753d 100644
--- a/Documentation/development-process/HOWTO.rst
+++ b/Documentation/development-process/HOWTO.rst
@@ -164,21 +164,37 @@ required reading:
     apply it to the different development branches of the kernel.
 
 The kernel also has a large number of documents that can be
-automatically generated from the source code itself.  This includes a
+automatically generated from the source code itself or from
+ReStructuredText markups (ReST), like this one. This includes a
 full description of the in-kernel API, and rules on how to handle
-locking properly.  The documents will be created in the
-Documentation/DocBook/ directory and can be generated as PDF,
-Postscript, HTML, and man pages by running:
+locking properly.
+
+All such documents can be generated as PDF or HTML by running:
 
 ::
 
 	make pdfdocs
-	make psdocs
 	make htmldocs
-	make mandocs
 
 respectively from the main kernel source directory.
 
+The documents that uses ReST markup will be generated at Documentation/output.
+They can also be generated on LaTeX and ePub formats with:
+
+::
+
+	make latexdocs
+	make epubdocs
+
+Currently, there are some documents written on DocBook that are in
+the process of conversion to ReST. Such documents will be created in the
+Documentation/DocBook/ directory and can be generated also as
+Postscript or man pages by running:
+
+::
+
+	make psdocs
+	make mandocs
 
 Becoming A Kernel Developer
 ---------------------------
-- 
2.7.4


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