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authorJonathan Corbet2016-10-27 17:05:10 -0600
committerJonathan Corbet2016-10-27 17:47:58 -0600
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Merge branch 'doc-tweaks' into docs-next
The creation of the admin and process guides is a great thing, but, without care, we risk replacing a messy docs directory with a few messy Sphinx books. In an attempt to head that off and show what I'm thinking, here's a set of tweaks that, I think, make the existing Sphinx-formatted docs a bit more accessible.
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-Linux Kernel Development Documentation
-======================================
+Working with the kernel development community
+=============================================
-Contents:
+So you want to be a Linux kernel developer? Welcome! While there is a lot
+to be learned about the kernel in a technical sense, it is also important
+to learn about how our community works. Reading these documents will make
+it much easier for you to get your changes merged with a minimum of
+trouble.
+
+Below are the essential guides that every developer should read.
.. toctree::
- :maxdepth: 2
+ :maxdepth: 1
howto
- changes
- coding-style
+ code-of-conflict
+ development-process
submitting-patches
+ coding-style
+ email-clients
+
+Other guides to the community that are of interest to most developers are:
+
+.. toctree::
+ :maxdepth: 1
+
+ changes
submitting-drivers
stable-api-nonsense
management-style
stable-kernel-rules
+ submit-checklist
kernel-docs
+
+These are some overall technical guides that have been put here for now for
+lack of a better place.
+
+.. toctree::
+ :maxdepth: 1
+
applying-patches
- email-clients
- submit-checklist
- code-of-conflict
adding-syscalls
magic-number
volatile-considered-harmful
- development-process
-
-
.. only:: subproject and html
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