In the Distribution Kernels track at Linux Plumbers Conference there
was some discussion around the difficulty of making kernel builds
reproducible.

This is a solved problem, but the solutions don't appear to be
documented in one place.  This document lists the issues I know about
and the settings needed to ensure reproducibility.

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Acked-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

Standard integer promotion is already done and %hx and %hhx is useless
so do not encourage the use of %hh[xudi] or %h[xudi].

As Linus said in:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wgoxnmsj8GEVFJSvTwdnWm8wVJthefNk2n6+4TC=20e0Q@mail.gmail.com/



It's a pointless warning, making for more complex code, and
making people remember esoteric printf format details that have no
reason for existing.

The "h" and "hh" things should never be used. The only reason for them
being used if if you have an "int", but you want to print it out as a
"char" (and honestly, that is a really bad reason, you'd be better off
just using a proper cast to make the code more obvious).

So if what you have a "char" (or unsigned char) you should always just
print it out as an "int", knowing that the compiler already did the
proper type conversion.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Reviewed-by: Louis Taylor <louis@kragniz.eu>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

This argument is supported on RISC-V systems and widely used, but was
not documented here.

Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@sifive.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

Remove the clever example about read-write lock because this type of
lock is not recommended anymore (according to the very same document).
So there is no reason to teach clever things that people should not do.

Signed-off-by: Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@vaga.pv.it>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

Describe how the comedi minor device numbers are split across comedi
devices and comedi subdevices.

Replace the current, long dead URL with an official URL for the Comedi
project.

Signed-off-by: Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

The reference driver no longer exists since commit 50f1242c

 ("mtd:
fsl-quadspi: Remove the driver as it was replaced by spi-fsl-qspi.c").

Update reference to spi-fsl-qspi.c driver.

Signed-off-by: John Garry <john.garry@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

Fix grammar dtb placed in no attributes region.
This makes Chinese translation smooth to read.

Signed-off-by: lixinafa <lixinafa.official@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

This advice is obsolete and slightly harmful for filesystems from this
millenium: any modern filesystem can handle unexpected crashes without
requiring fsck -- and on the other hand, trying to write to the disk when
the kernel is in a bad state risks introducing corruption.

For ext2, any unsafe shutdown meant widespread breakage, but it's no longer
a reasonable filesystem for any non-special use.

Signed-off-by: Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

My @arm.com email address will stop working in a few weeks, so add an
entry to .mailmap so others have a way to reach me if they want to.

While at it, move some entries around to keep the file in alphabetical
order.

Signed-off-by: Quentin Perret <quentin.perret@arm.com>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

The current text could mislead the user into believing that only read()
disables tracing. Clarify that any open() call that requests read access
disables tracing.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAADnVQ+hU6QOC_dPmpjnuv=9g4SQEeaMEMqXOS2WpMj=q=LdiQ@mail.gmail.com


Signed-off-by: Peter Wu <peter@lekensteyn.nl>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

http://linux.yyz.us/patch-format.html

 seems to be down since
approximately September 2018. There is a working archive copy on
arhive.org. Replaced the links in documenation + translations.

Signed-off-by: Jacob Huisman <jacobhuisman@kernelthusiast.com>
Reviewed-by: Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@vaga.pv.it>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

It seems a UTF-8 byte order mark (the least useful kind of BOM...) snuck
into the file and broke Sphinx's detection of the title line.

Besides making arm/samsung-s3c24xx/index.html look a little better, this
patch also confines the non-index pages in arm/samsung-s3c24xx to their
own table of contents.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Neuschäfer <j.neuschaefer@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

"make assabet_config" doesn't work.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Neuschäfer <j.neuschaefer@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

The support for the following boards, among others, was removed in 2004
with commit "[ARM] Remove broken SA1100 machine support.":

- ADS Bitsy
- Brutus
- Freebird
- ADS GraphicsClient Plus
- ADS GraphicsMaster
- Höft & Wessel Webpanel
- Compaq Itsy
- nanoEngine
- Pangolin
- PLEB
- Yopy

Tifon support has been removed in 2.4.3.3.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Neuschäfer <j.neuschaefer@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org> found a reference
error in Chinese howto.rst. and further more there more infos of
latexdocs/epubdocs format doc making in English howto.rst.

So I update this part according to latest howto.rst and settled
the correct reference.

Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

Fix broken reference to virt/index.rst.

Fixes: 2f5947df

 ("Documentation: move Documentation/virtual to Documentation/virt")
Signed-off-by: Sheriff Esseson <sheriffesseson@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

Signed-off-by: Marco Villegas <git@marvil07.net>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

In C is a valid construction to have an anonymous enumerator.

Though we have now:

  drivers/pinctrl/intel/pinctrl-intel.c:240: error: Cannot parse enum!

Support it in the kernel-doc script.

Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

With the introduction of Documentation/sphinx/automarkup.py, socket() is
parsed as a reference to the in-kernel definition of socket. Sphinx then
decides that struct socket is a good match, which is usually not
intended, when the syscall is meant instead. This was observed in
Documentation/networking/af_xdp.rst.

Prevent socket() from being misinterpreted by adding it to the Skipfuncs
list in automarkup.py.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Neuschäfer <j.neuschaefer@gmx.net>
Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

In Python, like in C, when a comma is omitted in a list of strings, the
two strings around the missing comma are concatenated.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org  # v5.2 only
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Neuschäfer <j.neuschaefer@gmx.net>
Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

Add entry to connect all Jaegeuk's email addresses.

Acked-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

My @linaro.org email address doesn't exist anymore so add a
mailmap entry to map it to my @gmail.com address.

Signed-off-by: Todor Tomov <todor.too@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

Add entry to connect all Gao Xiang's email addresses.

Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Gao Xiang <gaoxiang25@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

There is a minor spelling mistake in the documentation, fix it.

Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

Ignore __printf() function attributes just as other __attribute__
strings are ignored.

Fixes this kernel-doc warning message:
include/kunit/kunit-stream.h:58: warning: Function parameter or member '2' not described in '__printf'

Reported-by: kbuild test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@google.com>
Tested-by: Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

With all those document shifts, references to documents get
broken.

Fix one such occurrence at porting.rst.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

The 1wire documentation was written with w1 developers in
mind, so, it makes sense to add it together with the driver-api
set.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

The filenames for cifs documentation is not using the same
convention as almost all Kernel documents is using. So,
rename them to a more appropriate name. Then, manually convert
the documentation files for CIFS to ReST.

By doing a manual conversion, we can preserve the original
author's style, while making it to look more like the other
Kernel documents.

Most of the conversion here is trivial. The most complex one was
the README file (which was renamed to usage.rst).

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

While there's one file there with briefily describes the uAPI,
the documentation was written just like most subsystems: focused
on kernel developers. So, add it together with driver-api books.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com> # for iio
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

The documentation standard is ReST and not markdown.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

Those are due to recent changes. Most of the issues
can be automatically fixed with:

	$ ./scripts/documentation-file-ref-check --fix

The only exception was the sound binding with required
manual work.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

There are some weird quirks when it comes to UEFI event log. Provide a
brief introduction to TPM event log mechanism and describe the quirks
and how they can be sorted out.

Signed-off-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

There are two README files there with doesn't have a .txt
extension nor are at ReST format.

In order to help with the docs conversion to ReST, rename those
and manually convert them to ReST format.

As there are lot more to be done for networking to be part of
the documentation body, for now mark those two files with
:orphan:, in order to supress a build warning.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

Rename and add the nios2 documentation to the documentation
body.

The nios2 document is already on an ReST compatible format.
All it needs is that the title of the document to be promoted
one level.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

This document was recently introduced. Convert it to ReST
just like the other hwmon documents, adding it to the hwmon index.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

Manually convert the AU1xxx_IDE.README file to ReST and add
to a MIPS book as part of the main documentation body.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton@mips.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

Manually convert wimax documentation to ReST and add theit
to the Kernel doc body, inside the admin-guide.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

The genindex logic is meant to be used only for html output, as
pdf build has its own way to generate indexes.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Vinod Koul <vkoul@kernel.org> # dmaengine and soundwire
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

This file has its own proper style, except that, after a while,
the coding style gets violated and whitespaces are placed on
different ways.

As Sphinx and ReST are very sentitive to whitespace differences,
I had to opt if each entry after required/mandatory/... fields
should start with zero spaces or with a tab. I opted to start them
all from the zero position, in order to avoid needing to break lines
with more than 80 columns, with would make harder for review.

Most of the other changes at porting.rst were made to use an unified
notation with works nice as a text file while also produce a good html
output after being parsed.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

There are 3 remaining files without an extension inside the fs docs
dir.

Manually convert them to ReST.

In the case of the nfs/exporting.rst file, as the nfs docs
aren't ported yet, I opted to convert and add a :orphan: there,
with should be removed when it gets added into a nfs-specific
part of the fs documentation.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>