Thread (4 messages) 4 messages, 2 authors, 2021-08-21

Re: [PATCH v3] Documentation: Update details of The Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide

From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Date: 2021-08-20 23:06:33
Also in: lkml
Subsystem: documentation, documentation process, index of further kernel documentation, the rest · Maintainers: Jonathan Corbet, Carlos Bilbao, Linus Torvalds

Chun-Hung Tseng [off-list ref] writes:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
Recently, the content and examples of the book "The Linux Kernel Module
Programming Guide" are being actively maintained and added on Github[1].
Currently, the book is being regularly built into webpage and pdf
file using Github static page[2].

[1]: https://github.com/sysprog21/lkmpg
[2]: https://sysprog21.github.io/lkmpg/

Signed-off-by: Chun-Hung Tseng <redacted>
---
 Documentation/process/kernel-docs.rst | 14 ++++++++------
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/process/kernel-docs.rst b/Documentation/process/kernel-docs.rst
index 22d9ace5df2a..dd911cf09b55 100644
--- a/Documentation/process/kernel-docs.rst
+++ b/Documentation/process/kernel-docs.rst
@@ -126,15 +126,17 @@ On-line docs
         describes how to write user-mode utilities for communicating with
         Card Services.
 
-    * Title: **Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide**
+    * Title: **The Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide**
 
-      :Author: Ori Pomerantz.
-      :URL: https://tldp.org/LDP/lkmpg/2.6/html/index.html
-      :Date: 2001
+      :Author: Peter Jay Salzman, Michael Burian, Ori Pomerantz, Bob Mottram,
+      Jim Huang.
+      :URL: https://sysprog21.github.io/lkmpg/
+      :Date: 2021
       :Keywords: modules, GPL book, /proc, ioctls, system calls,
         interrupt handlers .
-      :Description: Very nice 92 pages GPL book on the topic of modules
-        programming. Lots of examples.
+      :Description: A very nice GPL book on the topic of modules
+        programming. Lots of examples. Currently the new version is being
+        actively maintained at https://github.com/sysprog21/lkmpg.
I have applied this, thanks.

That said, this change introduced a set of build warnings:

    Documentation/process/kernel-docs.rst:132: WARNING: Field list ends without a blank line; unexpected unindent.
    Documentation/process/kernel-docs.rst:136: WARNING: Unexpected indentation.
    Documentation/process/kernel-docs.rst:137: WARNING: Block quote ends without a blank line; unexpected unindent.

To fix that, I had to do this:
diff --git a/Documentation/process/kernel-docs.rst b/Documentation/process/kernel-docs.rst
index dd911cf09b55..da9527502ef0 100644
--- a/Documentation/process/kernel-docs.rst
+++ b/Documentation/process/kernel-docs.rst
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ On-line docs
     * Title: **The Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide**
 
       :Author: Peter Jay Salzman, Michael Burian, Ori Pomerantz, Bob Mottram,
-      Jim Huang.
+        Jim Huang.
       :URL: https://sysprog21.github.io/lkmpg/
       :Date: 2021
       :Keywords: modules, GPL book, /proc, ioctls, system calls,
Please, be sure to test the docs build before sending patches.

Thanks,

jon
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