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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-12-12 21:58:13 -0800
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Pull documentation update from Jonathan Corbet: "These are the documentation changes for 4.10. It's another busy cycle for the docs tree, as the sphinx conversion continues. Highlights include: - Further work on PDF output, which remains a bit of a pain but should be more solid now. - Five more DocBook template files converted to Sphinx. Only 27 to go... Lots of plain-text files have also been converted and integrated. - Images in binary formats have been replaced with more source-friendly versions. - Various bits of organizational work, including the renaming of various files discussed at the kernel summit. - New documentation for the device_link mechanism. ... and, of course, lots of typo fixes and small updates" * tag 'docs-4.10' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (193 commits) dma-buf: Extract dma-buf.rst Update Documentation/00-INDEX docs: 00-INDEX: document directories/files with no docs docs: 00-INDEX: remove non-existing entries docs: 00-INDEX: add missing entries for documentation files/dirs docs: 00-INDEX: consolidate process/ and admin-guide/ description scripts: add a script to check if Documentation/00-INDEX is sane Docs: change sh -> awk in REPORTING-BUGS Documentation/core-api/device_link: Add initial documentation core-api: remove an unexpected unident ppc/idle: Add documentation for powersave=off Doc: Correct typo, "Introdution" => "Introduction" Documentation/atomic_ops.txt: convert to ReST markup Documentation/local_ops.txt: convert to ReST markup Documentation/assoc_array.txt: convert to ReST markup docs-rst: parse-headers.pl: cleanup the documentation docs-rst: fix media cleandocs target docs-rst: media/Makefile: reorganize the rules docs-rst: media: build SVG from graphviz files docs-rst: replace bayer.png by a SVG image ...
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You can adapt this file completely to your liking, but it should at least
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-Welcome to The Linux Kernel's documentation!
-============================================
+Welcome to The Linux Kernel's documentation
+===========================================
-Contents:
+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.
+
+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.
+
+.. toctree::
+ :maxdepth: 2
+
+ admin-guide/index
+
+Introduction to kernel development
+----------------------------------
+
+These manuals contain overall information about how to develop the kernel.
+The kernel community is quite large, with thousands of developers
+contributing over the course of a year. As with any large community,
+knowing how things are done will make the process of getting your changes
+merged much easier.
+
+.. toctree::
+ :maxdepth: 2
+
+ process/index
+ dev-tools/index
+ doc-guide/index
+
+Kernel API documentation
+------------------------
+
+These books get into the details of how specific kernel subsystems work
+from the point of view of a kernel developer. Much of the information here
+is taken directly from the kernel source, with supplemental material added
+as needed (or at least as we managed to add it — probably *not* all that is
+needed).
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 2
- kernel-documentation
- development-process/index
- dev-tools/tools
driver-api/index
+ core-api/index
media/index
gpu/index
- 80211/index
+ security/index
+ sound/index
+
+Korean translations
+-------------------
+
+.. toctree::
+ :maxdepth: 1
+
+ translations/ko_KR/index
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