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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2024-03-12 15:18:34 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2024-03-12 15:18:34 -0700
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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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@@ -9,110 +9,141 @@ of device drivers. This document is an only somewhat organized collection
of some of those interfaces — it will hopefully get better over time! The
available subsections can be seen below.
+
+General information for driver authors
+======================================
+
+This section contains documentation that should, at some point or other, be
+of interest to most developers working on device drivers.
+
.. toctree::
- :caption: Table of contents
- :maxdepth: 2
+ :maxdepth: 1
- driver-model/index
basics
+ driver-model/index
+ device_link
infrastructure
ioctl
- early-userspace/index
pm/index
- clk
+
+Useful support libraries
+========================
+
+This section contains documentation that should, at some point or other, be
+of interest to most developers working on device drivers.
+
+.. toctree::
+ :maxdepth: 1
+
+ early-userspace/index
+ connector
device-io
+ devfreq
dma-buf
- device_link
component
- message-based
- infiniband
- aperture
- frame-buffer
- regulator
- reset
- iio/index
- input
- usb/index
- firewire
- pci/index
+ io-mapping
+ io_ordering
+ uio-howto
+ vfio-mediated-device
+ vfio
+ vfio-pci-device-specific-driver-acceptance
+
+Bus-level documentation
+=======================
+
+.. toctree::
+ :maxdepth: 1
+
+ auxiliary_bus
cxl/index
- spi
- i2c
- ipmb
- ipmi
+ eisa
+ firewire
i3c/index
- interconnect
- devfreq
- hsi
- edac
- scsi
- libata
- target
- mailbox
- mtdnand
- miscellaneous
- mei/index
- mtd/index
- mmc/index
- nvdimm/index
- w1
+ isa
+ men-chameleon-bus
+ pci/index
rapidio/index
- s390-drivers
+ slimbus
+ usb/index
+ virtio/index
vme
+ w1
+ xillybus
+
+
+Subsystem-specific APIs
+=======================
+
+.. toctree::
+ :maxdepth: 1
+
80211/index
- uio-howto
+ acpi/index
+ backlight/lp855x-driver.rst
+ clk
+ console
+ crypto/index
+ dmaengine/index
+ dpll
+ edac
firmware/index
- pin-control
+ fpga/index
+ frame-buffer
+ aperture
+ generic-counter
gpio/index
+ hsi
+ hte/index
+ i2c
+ iio/index
+ infiniband
+ input
+ interconnect
+ ipmb
+ ipmi
+ libata
+ mailbox
md/index
media/index
+ mei/index
+ memory-devices/index
+ message-based
misc_devices
+ miscellaneous
+ mmc/index
+ mtd/index
+ mtdnand
nfc/index
- dmaengine/index
- slimbus
- soundwire/index
- thermal/index
- fpga/index
- acpi/index
- auxiliary_bus
- backlight/lp855x-driver.rst
- connector
- console
- eisa
- isa
- io-mapping
- io_ordering
- generic-counter
- memory-devices/index
- men-chameleon-bus
ntb
+ nvdimm/index
nvmem
parport-lowlevel
+ phy/index
+ pin-control
+ pldmfw/index
pps
ptp
- phy/index
pwm
- pldmfw/index
+ regulator
+ reset
rfkill
+ s390-drivers
+ scsi
serial/index
sm501
+ soundwire/index
+ spi
surface_aggregator/index
switchtec
sync_file
+ target
+ tee
+ thermal/index
tty/index
- vfio-mediated-device
- vfio
- vfio-pci-device-specific-driver-acceptance
- virtio/index
+ wbrf
+ wmi
xilinx/index
- xillybus
zorro
- hte/index
- wmi
- dpll
- wbrf
- crypto/index
- tee
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