Re: [PATCH v3 0/7] Rewrite the top-level index.rst

From: Randy Dunlap
Date: Tue Sep 27 2022 - 16:59:43 EST




On 9/27/22 09:05, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> The top-level index.rst file is the entry point for the kernel's
> documentation, especially for readers of the HTML output. It is currently
> a mess containing everything we thought to throw in there. Firefox says it
> would require 26 pages of paper to print it. That is not a user-friendly
> introduction.
>
> This series aims to improve our documentation entry point with a focus on
> rewriting index.rst. The result is, IMO, simpler and more approachable.
> For anybody who wants to see the rendered results without building the
> docs, have a look at:
>
> https://static.lwn.net/kerneldoc/

LGTM. Thanks.

for the series:
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> This time around I've rendered the pages using the "Read The Docs" theme,
> since that's what everybody will get by default. That theme ignores the
> directives regarding the left column, so the results are not as good there.
> I have a series proposing a default-theme change in the works, but that's a
> separate topic.
>
> This is only a beginning; I think this kind of organizational effort has to
> be pushed down into the lower layers of the docs tree itself. But one has
> to start somewhere.
>
> CHANGES from v2: now with less sloppiness. I've tried to respond to all of
> the review comments. scripts/checkpatch.pl has been updated to match the
> new location of asm-annotations.rst. There is also now a link to the man
> pages in the user-oriented documentation section.
>
> CHANGES from v1: I've tried to address the comments from v1, further
> cleaning up the front page. I've added the "reporting issues" and "kernel
> testing" documents there, and done a bit of cleanup. There is plenty more
> yet to be done.


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~Randy