[PATCH] docs: rework the driver-api top-level page

From: Jonathan Corbet
Date: Mon Jan 22 2024 - 17:19:33 EST


Add subsections in an attempt to bring a bit order to this page; also sort
most subsections into alphabetical order. With luck all this will help to
prevent merge conflicts on this page due to everybody adding entries at the
end.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/driver-api/index.rst | 169 +++++++++++++++++------------
1 file changed, 100 insertions(+), 69 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/index.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/index.rst
index eba851605388..f10decc2c14b 100644
--- a/Documentation/driver-api/index.rst
+++ b/Documentation/driver-api/index.rst
@@ -9,110 +9,141 @@ of device drivers. This document is an only somewhat organized collection
of some of those interfaces — it will hopefully get better over time! The
available subsections can be seen below.

+
+General information for driver authors
+======================================
+
+This section contains documentation that should, at some point or other, be
+of interest to most developers working on device drivers.
+
.. toctree::
- :caption: Table of contents
- :maxdepth: 2
+ :maxdepth: 1

- driver-model/index
basics
+ driver-model/index
+ device_link
infrastructure
ioctl
- early-userspace/index
pm/index
- clk
+
+Useful support libraries
+========================
+
+This section contains documentation that should, at some point or other, be
+of interest to most developers working on device drivers.
+
+.. toctree::
+ :maxdepth: 1
+
+ early-userspace/index
+ connector
device-io
+ devfreq
dma-buf
- device_link
component
- message-based
- infiniband
- aperture
- frame-buffer
- regulator
- reset
- iio/index
- input
- usb/index
- firewire
- pci/index
+ io-mapping
+ io_ordering
+ uio-howto
+ vfio-mediated-device
+ vfio
+ vfio-pci-device-specific-driver-acceptance
+
+Bus-level documentation
+=======================
+
+.. toctree::
+ :maxdepth: 1
+
+ auxiliary_bus
cxl/index
- spi
- i2c
- ipmb
- ipmi
+ eisa
+ firewire
i3c/index
- interconnect
- devfreq
- hsi
- edac
- scsi
- libata
- target
- mailbox
- mtdnand
- miscellaneous
- mei/index
- mtd/index
- mmc/index
- nvdimm/index
- w1
+ isa
+ men-chameleon-bus
+ pci/index
rapidio/index
- s390-drivers
+ slimbus
+ usb/index
+ virtio/index
vme
+ w1
+ xillybus
+
+
+Subsystem-specific APIs
+=======================
+
+.. toctree::
+ :maxdepth: 1
+
80211/index
- uio-howto
+ acpi/index
+ backlight/lp855x-driver.rst
+ clk
+ console
+ crypto/index
+ dmaengine/index
+ dpll
+ edac
firmware/index
- pin-control
+ fpga/index
+ frame-buffer
+ aperture
+ generic-counter
gpio/index
+ hsi
+ hte/index
+ i2c
+ iio/index
+ infiniband
+ input
+ interconnect
+ ipmb
+ ipmi
+ libata
+ mailbox
md/index
media/index
+ mei/index
+ memory-devices/index
+ message-based
misc_devices
+ miscellaneous
+ mmc/index
+ mtd/index
+ mtdnand
nfc/index
- dmaengine/index
- slimbus
- soundwire/index
- thermal/index
- fpga/index
- acpi/index
- auxiliary_bus
- backlight/lp855x-driver.rst
- connector
- console
- eisa
- isa
- io-mapping
- io_ordering
- generic-counter
- memory-devices/index
- men-chameleon-bus
ntb
+ nvdimm/index
nvmem
parport-lowlevel
+ phy/index
+ pin-control
+ pldmfw/index
pps
ptp
- phy/index
pwm
- pldmfw/index
+ regulator
+ reset
rfkill
+ s390-drivers
+ scsi
serial/index
sm501
+ soundwire/index
+ spi
surface_aggregator/index
switchtec
sync_file
+ target
+ tee
+ thermal/index
tty/index
- vfio-mediated-device
- vfio
- vfio-pci-device-specific-driver-acceptance
- virtio/index
+ wbrf
+ wmi
xilinx/index
- xillybus
zorro
- hte/index
- wmi
- dpll
- wbrf
- crypto/index
- tee

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