linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 10/11] docs: add a warning to submitting-drivers.rst

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Message-ID: <20161026223848.69298076@vento.lan>
Date:   Wed, 26 Oct 2016 22:38:48 -0200
From:   Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...pensource.com>
To:     Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
Cc:     linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/11] docs: add a warning to submitting-drivers.rst

Em Wed, 26 Oct 2016 17:19:38 -0600
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net> escreveu:

> This is crufty stuff and should maybe just be deleted, but I'm not quite
> ready to do that yet.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
> ---
>  Documentation/process/submitting-drivers.rst | 8 ++++++++
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/process/submitting-drivers.rst b/Documentation/process/submitting-drivers.rst
> index 0939d018c289..afb82ee0cbea 100644
> --- a/Documentation/process/submitting-drivers.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/process/submitting-drivers.rst
> @@ -8,6 +8,14 @@ various kernel trees. Note that if you are interested in video card drivers
>  you should probably talk to XFree86 (http://www.xfree86.org/) and/or X.Org
>  (http://x.org/) instead.
>  
> +.. note::
> +
> +   This document is old and has seen little maintenance in recent years; it
> +   should probably be updated or, perhaps better, just deleted.  Most of
> +   what is here can be found in the other development documents anyway.
> +
> +   Oh, and we don't really recommend submitting changes to XFree86 :)

Yeah, at least the XFree86 part should be stripped ;)

I guess the other parts should be verified if they're all there at the
process book before nuking this one.

Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...pensource.com>

> +
>  Also read the Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst document.
>  
>  



Thanks,
Mauro