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 24F6C98D for ; Tue, 2 Aug 2016 14:35:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mga03.intel.com (mga03.intel.com [134.134.136.65]) by smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 948101A7 for ; Tue, 2 Aug 2016 14:35:16 +0000 (UTC) From: Jani Nikula To: Daniel Vetter , "ksummit-discuss\@lists.linuxfoundation.org" In-Reply-To: References: Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2016 17:34:55 +0300 Message-ID: <87y44fqlww.fsf@intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: Grant Likely , Markus Heiser , Mauro Carvalho Chehab Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [TECH TOPIC] kernel documentation List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Wed, 20 Jul 2016, Daniel Vetter wrote: > 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. Perhaps this is redundant, but for the record, I'm interested. BR, Jani. -- Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Technology Center