linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] doc: add link to sparse's home page/internal docs

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Message-ID: <20200705143038.44091487@lwn.net>
Date:   Sun, 5 Jul 2020 14:30:38 -0600
From:   Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
To:     Luc Van Oostenryck <luc.vanoostenryck@...il.com>
Cc:     linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc: add link to sparse's home page/internal docs

On Sun, 28 Jun 2020 11:50:34 +0200
Luc Van Oostenryck <luc.vanoostenryck@...il.com> wrote:

> Sparse's home page used to be a wiki (sparse.wiki.kernel.org)
> but this wiki only contained a short intro and the release notes.
> But nowadays, sparse's main page is sparse.docs.kernel.org,
> which contains all what was in the wiki but also other documentation,
> mainly oriented about sparse's internals.
> 
> So, add a link to this in the kernel documentation.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Luc Van Oostenryck <luc.vanoostenryck@...il.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/dev-tools/sparse.rst | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/sparse.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/sparse.rst
> index 6f4870528226..e20b8b8b78ed 100644
> --- a/Documentation/dev-tools/sparse.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/sparse.rst
> @@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ Sparse is a semantic checker for C programs; it can be used to find a
>  number of potential problems with kernel code.  See
>  https://lwn.net/Articles/689907/ for an overview of sparse; this document
>  contains some kernel-specific sparse information.
> +More information on sparse, mainly about its internals, can be found in
> +its official pages at https://sparse.docs.kernl.org.

Applied, thanks.

jon