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Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2024 15:18:30 -0700
From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
To: linux-doc@...r.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] docs: rework the userspace-api top page

Add some subsection headings and reorder entries so that the page makes a
bit more sense.  With luck, adding some ordering will also reduce merge
conflicts due to everybody adding new entries at the end.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
---
 Documentation/userspace-api/index.rst | 48 ++++++++++++++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 36 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/index.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/index.rst
index 09f61bd2ac2e..99a388fdefb5 100644
--- a/Documentation/userspace-api/index.rst
+++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/index.rst
@@ -9,31 +9,55 @@ While much of the kernel's user-space API is documented elsewhere
 also be found in the kernel tree itself.  This manual is intended to be the
 place where this information is gathered.
 
+
+System calls
+============
+
 .. toctree::
-   :caption: Table of contents
-   :maxdepth: 2
+   :maxdepth: 1
+
+   unshare
+   futex2
+   ebpf/index
+   ioctl/index
+
+Security-related interfaces
+===========================
+
+.. toctree::
+   :maxdepth: 1
 
    no_new_privs
    seccomp_filter
    landlock
-   unshare
+   lsm
    spec_ctrl
+   tee
+
+Devices and I/O
+===============
+
+.. toctree::
+   :maxdepth: 1
+
    accelerators/ocxl
    dma-buf-alloc-exchange
-   ebpf/index
-   ELF
-   ioctl/index
    iommu
    iommufd
    media/index
-   netlink/index
-   sysfs-platform_profile
+   dcdbas
    vduse
-   futex2
-   lsm
-   tee
    isapnp
-   dcdbas
+
+Everything else
+===============
+
+.. toctree::
+   :maxdepth: 1
+
+   ELF
+   netlink/index
+   sysfs-platform_profile
 
 .. only::  subproject and html
 
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