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2025-12-22docs: Update documentation to avoid mentioning of kernel.hAndy Shevchenko
For several years, and still ongoing, the kernel.h is being split to smaller and narrow headers to avoid "including everything" approach which is bad in many ways. Since that, documentation missed a few required updates to align with that work. Do it here. Note, language translations are left untouched and if anybody willing to help, please provide path(es) based on the updated English variant. Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org> Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <20251126214709.2322314-1-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
2025-05-19Docs: driver-api/basics: add kobject_event interfacesRandy Dunlap
Add the kernel-doc comments from lib/kobject_uevent.c to the "Kernel objects manipulation" section of driver API Basics. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael@kernel.org> Cc: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <20250509005538.685678-1-rdunlap@infradead.org>
2023-07-14docs: time: make separate section for time and timersRandy Dunlap
Give time & timer APIs their own section and begin adding entries to that section. Move hrtimers immediately after this new section so that they are all together. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Cc: John Stultz <jstultz@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230704052405.5089-1-rdunlap@infradead.org
2023-06-05locking/atomic: docs: Add atomic operations to the driver basic API ↵Paul E. McKenney
documentation Add the generated atomic headers to driver-api/basics.rst in order to provide documentation for the Linux kernel's atomic operations. At the same time, dtop the x86 atomic header, which provides kerneldoc comments for some arch_atomic*_*() operations. The arch_atomic*_*() operations are now purely an implenentation detail of the raw_atomic*_*() ops, and outside of implementing the atomics, code should use the raw_atomic*_*() forms. [Mark: add atomic-{instrumented,long}.h, update commit message] Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230605070124.3741859-27-mark.rutland@arm.com
2022-10-25overflow: Fix kern-doc markup for functionsKees Cook
Fix the kern-doc markings for several of the overflow helpers and move their location into the core kernel API documentation, where it belongs (it's not driver-specific). Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org Reviewed-by: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
2020-10-15docs: basics.rst: avoid duplicated C function declarationMauro Carvalho Chehab
pci_device_id is already documented at pci.rst: ./Documentation/driver-api/basics.rst: WARNING: Duplicate C declaration, also defined in 'PCI/pci'. Declaration is 'pci_device_id'. The kstrtol and kstrtoul are already at kernel-api: ./Documentation/driver-api/basics.rst: WARNING: Duplicate C declaration, also defined in 'core-api/kernel-api'. Declaration is 'kstrtoul'. ./Documentation/driver-api/basics.rst: WARNING: Duplicate C declaration, also defined in 'core-api/kernel-api'. Declaration is 'kstrtol'. And the printk is already defined at printk-basics: ./Documentation/driver-api/basics.rst: WARNING: Duplicate C declaration, also defined in 'core-api/printk-basics'. Declaration is 'printk'. So, exclude those identifiers from basirs.rst. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2020-10-15docs: basics.rst: get rid of rcu kernel-doc macrosMauro Carvalho Chehab
Those are already defined at kernel-api.rst, as part of the synchronization primitives chapter. This solves several Sphinx 3 warnings, like: .../Documentation/driver-api/basics.rst: WARNING: Duplicate C declaration, also defined in 'core-api/kernel-api'. Declaration is 'rcu_idle_enter'. .../Documentation/driver-api/basics.rst: WARNING: Duplicate C declaration, also defined in 'core-api/kernel-api'. Declaration is 'rcu_idle_exit'. .../Documentation/driver-api/basics.rst: WARNING: Duplicate C declaration, also defined in 'core-api/kernel-api'. Declaration is 'rcu_is_watching'. .../Documentation/driver-api/basics.rst: WARNING: Duplicate C declaration, also defined in 'core-api/kernel-api'. Declaration is 'call_rcu'. .../Documentation/driver-api/basics.rst: WARNING: Duplicate C declaration, also defined in 'core-api/kernel-api'. Declaration is 'synchronize_rcu'. ... Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2020-10-15docs: basics.rst: move kernel-doc workqueue markups to workqueue.rstMauro Carvalho Chehab
As there's already a rst file with workqueue markups, containing part of them, move the other definitions, in order to avoid warnings with Sphinx. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2019-05-24docs: Do not seek comments in kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.hJonathan Corbet
There are no kerneldoc comments in this file, so do not attempt to include them in the docs build. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-10-18docs: Introduce deprecated APIs listKees Cook
As discussed in the "API replacement/deprecation" thread[1], this makes an effort to document what things shouldn't get (re)added to the kernel, by introducing Documentation/process/deprecated.rst. [1] https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/ksummit-discuss/2018-September/005282.html Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2017-12-11docs: refcount_t documentationElena Reshetova
Some functions from refcount_t API provide different memory ordering guarantees that their atomic counterparts. This adds a document outlining these differences ( Documentation/core-api/refcount-vs-atomic.rst) as well as some other minor improvements. Signed-off-by: Elena Reshetova <elena.reshetova@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2017-07-17docs: Do not include kerneldoc comments from kernel/sys.cJonathan Corbet
...because there are none there, and I cannot figure out what would ever have been of interest there. This eliminates this warning: ./kernel/sys.c:1: warning: no structured comments found from the build. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2017-07-17docs: Get module_init() docs from module.hJonathan Corbet
The docs build complains: ./include/linux/init.h:1: warning: no structured comments found The problem is that the comments in question were moved to module.h in commit 0fd972a7d91d (module: relocate module_init from init.h to module.h). Fix basics.rst to match. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2017-07-04docs: Do not include from kernel/rcu/srcu.cJonathan Corbet
That file went away with commit bd8cc5a062f4 (srcu: Remove Classic SRCU) during the 4.13 merge window, leading to errors like: Error: Cannot open file ./kernel/rcu/srcu.c during the docs build. Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2017-04-11driver-api/basics.rst: add device table headerMauro Carvalho Chehab
The structs there at device table are used by other documentation at the Kernel. So, add it to the driver API. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-08-22docs: split up the driver bookJonathan Corbet
We don't need to keep it as a single large file anymore; split it up so that it is easier to manage and the individual sections can be read directly as plain files. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>