linux/Documentation/index.rst
Linus Torvalds 1f44039766 A moderatly busy cycle for development this time around.
- Some cleanup of the main index page for easier navigation
 
 - Rework some of the other top-level pages for better readability and, with
   luck, fewer merge conflicts in the future.
 
 - Submit-checklist improvements, hopefully the first of many.
 
 - New Italian translations
 
 - A fair number of kernel-doc fixes and improvements.  We have also dropped
   the recommendation to use an old version of Sphinx.
 
 - A new document from Thorsten on bisection
 
 ...and lots of fixes and updates.
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Merge tag 'docs-6.9' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
 "A moderatly busy cycle for development this time around.

   - Some cleanup of the main index page for easier navigation

   - Rework some of the other top-level pages for better readability
     and, with luck, fewer merge conflicts in the future.

   - Submit-checklist improvements, hopefully the first of many.

   - New Italian translations

   - A fair number of kernel-doc fixes and improvements. We have also
     dropped the recommendation to use an old version of Sphinx.

   - A new document from Thorsten on bisection

  ... and lots of fixes and updates"

* tag 'docs-6.9' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (54 commits)
  docs: verify/bisect: fixes, finetuning, and support for Arch
  docs: Makefile: Add dependency to $(YNL_INDEX) for targets other than htmldocs
  docs: Move ja_JP/howto.rst to ja_JP/process/howto.rst
  docs: submit-checklist: use subheadings
  docs: submit-checklist: structure by category
  docs: new text on bisecting which also covers bug validation
  docs: drop the version constraints for sphinx and dependencies
  docs: kerneldoc-preamble.sty: Remove code for Sphinx <2.4
  docs: Restore "smart quotes" for quotes
  docs/zh_CN: accurate translation of "function"
  docs: Include simplified link titles in main index
  docs: Correct formatting of title in admin-guide/index.rst
  docs: kernel_feat.py: fix build error for missing files
  MAINTAINERS: Set the field name for subsystem profile section
  kasan: Add documentation for CONFIG_KASAN_EXTRA_INFO
  Fixed case issue with 'fault-injection' in documentation
  kernel-doc: handle #if in enums as well
  Documentation: update mailing list addresses
  doc: kerneldoc.py: fix indentation
  scripts/kernel-doc: simplify signature printing
  ...
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.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
.. _linux_doc:
==============================
The Linux Kernel documentation
==============================
This is the top level of the kernel's documentation tree. Kernel
documentation, like the kernel itself, is very much a work in progress;
that is especially true as we work to integrate our many scattered
documents into a coherent whole. Please note that improvements to the
documentation are welcome; join the linux-doc list at vger.kernel.org if
you want to help out.
Working with the development community
======================================
The essential guides for interacting with the kernel's development
community and getting your work upstream.
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 1
Development process <process/development-process>
Submitting patches <process/submitting-patches>
Code of conduct <process/code-of-conduct>
Maintainer handbook <maintainer/index>
All development-process docs <process/index>
Internal API manuals
====================
Manuals for use by developers working to interface with the rest of the
kernel.
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 1
Core API <core-api/index>
Driver APIs <driver-api/index>
Subsystems <subsystem-apis>
Locking <locking/index>
Development tools and processes
===============================
Various other manuals with useful information for all kernel developers.
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 1
Licensing rules <process/license-rules>
Writing documentation <doc-guide/index>
Development tools <dev-tools/index>
Testing guide <dev-tools/testing-overview>
Hacking guide <kernel-hacking/index>
Tracing <trace/index>
Fault injection <fault-injection/index>
Livepatching <livepatch/index>
Rust <rust/index>
User-oriented documentation
===========================
The following manuals are written for *users* of the kernel — those who are
trying to get it to work optimally on a given system and application
developers seeking information on the kernel's user-space APIs.
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 1
Administration <admin-guide/index>
Build system <kbuild/index>
Reporting issues <admin-guide/reporting-issues.rst>
Userspace tools <tools/index>
Userspace API <userspace-api/index>
See also: the `Linux man pages <https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/>`_,
which are kept separately from the kernel's own documentation.
Firmware-related documentation
==============================
The following holds information on the kernel's expectations regarding the
platform firmwares.
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 1
Firmware <firmware-guide/index>
Firmware and Devicetree <devicetree/index>
Architecture-specific documentation
===================================
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 2
CPU architectures <arch/index>
Other documentation
===================
There are several unsorted documents that don't seem to fit on other parts
of the documentation body, or may require some adjustments and/or conversion
to ReStructured Text format, or are simply too old.
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 1
Unsorted documentation <staging/index>
Translations
============
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 2
Translations <translations/index>
Indices and tables
==================
* :ref:`genindex`