From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (smtp1.linux-foundation.org [172.17.192.35]) by mail.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 52B7694D for ; Wed, 20 Jul 2016 12:40:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lists.s-osg.org (lists.s-osg.org [54.187.51.154]) by smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0EB512D for ; Wed, 20 Jul 2016 12:40:42 +0000 (UTC) Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2016 09:40:35 -0300 From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab To: Daniel Vetter Message-ID: <20160720094035.738244f8@recife.lan> In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Grant Likely , Markus Heiser , "Nikula, Jani" , "ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org" Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [TECH TOPIC] kernel documentation List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , HI Daniel, Em Wed, 20 Jul 2016 13:56:31 +0200 Daniel Vetter escreveu: > In 4.8 we have a shiny new kernel doc toolchain: > > https://lwn.net/Articles/692705/ > > I think it'd be great if interested parties (might be just a hallway > track) sit together and figure out how to best go about converting all > the existing docs over, and how to link it all together. I think we > pretty much have agreement that the docbook horror show needs to die, > but there's lots of other documentation that I think would be great to > include in the overall (cross-linked!) kernel docs. > > People who would be great to be there: > - Jon Corbet > - Mauro Carvalho > - Jani Nikula > - Markus Heiser > - maybe Grant Likely, he made noises about sphinx/rst too > > I think converting/polishing docs would also serve well as kernel > newbie task in opw or gsoc or wherever, that might be another > interested group. And anyone else who wants to convert over docs for > their subsystem. > > Mostly I'm just sending this out to gauge interest. Yeah, I think we should do it. Just not sure if this is a TECH TOPIC or a CORE one ;) Documentation will sooner or later touch all subsystems. So, I guess we should at least highlight some things to the core group (Or at least do a lightning talk there). Yet, a TECH topic would be interesting for us to discuss some details about that. Regards, Mauro