As discussed in the "API replacement/deprecation" thread[1], this makes
an effort to document what things shouldn't get (re)added to the kernel,
by introducing Documentation/process/deprecated.rst.
[1] https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/ksummit-discuss/2018-September/005282.html
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Some functions from refcount_t API provide different
memory ordering guarantees that their atomic counterparts.
This adds a document outlining these differences (
Documentation/core-api/refcount-vs-atomic.rst) as well as
some other minor improvements.
Signed-off-by: Elena Reshetova <elena.reshetova@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
...because there are none there, and I cannot figure out what would ever
have been of interest there. This eliminates this warning:
./kernel/sys.c:1: warning: no structured comments found
from the build.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
The docs build complains:
./include/linux/init.h:1: warning: no structured comments found
The problem is that the comments in question were moved to module.h in
commit 0fd972a7d9 (module: relocate module_init from init.h to
module.h). Fix basics.rst to match.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
That file went away with commit bd8cc5a062 (srcu: Remove Classic SRCU)
during the 4.13 merge window, leading to errors like:
Error: Cannot open file ./kernel/rcu/srcu.c
during the docs build.
Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
The structs there at device table are used by other documentation
at the Kernel. So, add it to the driver API.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
We don't need to keep it as a single large file anymore; split it up so
that it is easier to manage and the individual sections can be read
directly as plain files.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
