Re: [PATCH 2/4] docs: Rewrite the front page

[Jani Nikula]

On Thu, 01 Sep 2022, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> The front page is the entry point to the documentation, especially for
> people who read it online.  It's a big mess of everything we could think to
> toss into it.  Rewrite the page with an eye toward simplicity and making it
> easy for readers to get going toward what they really want to find.
>
> This is only a beginning, but it makes our docs more approachable than
> before.

\o/

> diff --git a/Documentation/subsystem-apis.rst b/Documentation/subsystem-apis.rst
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..f5d8bcc023c8
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/Documentation/subsystem-apis.rst
> @@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
> +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> +
> +==================================
> +Kernel subsystem API documentation
> +==================================

How about making this "Kernel subsystem documentation"?

For example the GPU documentation is so much more than just API
documentation. And the paragraph below is more generic too, "how
specific subsystems work".

BR,
Jani.

> +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).

-- 
Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Graphics Center