linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 5/5] docs: 00-INDEX: document directories/files with no docs

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Message-ID: <20161205142540.00aaac51@lwn.net>
Date:   Mon, 5 Dec 2016 14:25:40 -0700
From:   Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
To:     Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...pensource.com>
Cc:     Linux Doc Mailing List <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...radead.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Brian Norris <computersforpeace@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] docs: 00-INDEX: document directories/files with no
 docs

On Mon,  5 Dec 2016 09:41:45 -0200
Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...pensource.com> wrote:

> There are a number of files/directories that don't contain
> any documentation. They're related to ReST file conversion.
> 
> As a matter of completeness, since Makefile is also documented
> there, add an entry for those files too.

As promised, a couple of quibbles...

> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...pensource.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/00-INDEX | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 19 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/00-INDEX b/Documentation/00-INDEX
> index 272f5c4481f1..6d488509285d 100644
> --- a/Documentation/00-INDEX
> +++ b/Documentation/00-INDEX
> @@ -14,6 +14,8 @@ Following translations are available on the WWW:
>  	- this file.
>  ABI/
>  	- info on kernel <-> userspace ABI and relative interface stability.
> +CodingStyle
> +	- nothing here, just a pointer to process/coding-style.rst.
>  DMA-API.txt
>  	- DMA API, pci_ API & extensions for non-consistent memory machines.
>  DMA-API-HOWTO.txt
> @@ -39,6 +41,9 @@ Intel-IOMMU.txt
>  Makefile
>  	- This file does nothing. Removing it breaks make htmldocs and
>  	  make distclean.
> +Makefile.sphinx
> +	- This file does nothing. Removing it breaks make htmldocs and
> +	  make distclean.

To say that this file "does nothing" is clearly incorrect - it controls how
the sphinx build is done.

>  PCI/
>  	- info related to PCI drivers.
>  RCU/
> @@ -47,6 +52,8 @@ SAK.txt
>  	- info on Secure Attention Keys.
>  SM501.txt
>  	- Silicon Motion SM501 multimedia companion chip
> +SubmittingPatches
> +	- nothing here, just a pointer to process/coding-style.rst.
>  accounting/
>  	- documentation on accounting and taskstats.
>  acpi/
> @@ -93,6 +100,8 @@ clk.txt
>  	- info on the common clock framework
>  cma/
>  	- Continuous Memory Area (CMA) debugfs interface.
> +conf.py
> +	- nothing here. Just a configuration file for Sphinx.

Again, it's not "nothing"; we could say it's not of interest to people who
aren't doing things with the build system.

>  connector/
>  	- docs on the netlink based userspace<->kernel space communication mod.
>  console/
> @@ -135,6 +144,8 @@ digsig.txt
>  	-info on the Digital Signature Verification API
>  dma-buf-sharing.txt
>  	- the DMA Buffer Sharing API Guide
> +docutils.conf
> +	- nothing here. Just a configuration file for docutils.
>  dontdiff
>  	- file containing a list of files that should never be diff'ed.
>  driver-api/
> @@ -201,6 +212,8 @@ ide/
>  	- Information regarding the Enhanced IDE drive.
>  iio/
>  	- info on industrial IIO configfs support.
> +index.rst
> +	- main index for the documentation at ReST format.
>  infiniband/
>  	- directory with documents concerning Linux InfiniBand support.
>  input/
> @@ -307,6 +320,8 @@ nvdimm/
>  	- info on non-volatile devices.
>  nvmem/
>  	- info on non volatile memory framework.
> +output/
> +	- default directory where html/LaTeX/pdf files will be written.
>  padata.txt
>  	- An introduction to the "padata" parallel execution API
>  parisc/
> @@ -387,6 +402,10 @@ sound/
>  	- directory with info on sound card support.
>  spi/
>  	- overview of Linux kernel Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) support.
> +sphinx/
> +	- no doumentation here, just files required by Sphinx toolchain.

Indeed there's no "doumentation" there :)  No documentation either.

> +sphinx-static/
> +	- no doumentation here, just files required by Sphinx toolchain.
>  static-keys.txt
>  	- info on how static keys allow debug code in hotpaths via patching
>  svga.txt

Thanks,

jon