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[10/11] docs: add a warning to submitting-drivers.rst

Message ID 1477523979-5837-11-git-send-email-corbet@lwn.net
State Accepted
Commit 31b24bee33572031632c33091bb73ed0e949c53a
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Jonathan Corbet Oct. 26, 2016, 11:19 p.m. UTC
This is crufty stuff and should maybe just be deleted, but I'm not quite
ready to do that yet.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

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 Documentation/process/submitting-drivers.rst | 8 ++++++++
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Mauro Carvalho Chehab Oct. 27, 2016, 12:38 a.m. UTC | #1
Em Wed, 26 Oct 2016 17:19:38 -0600
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> escreveu:

> This is crufty stuff and should maybe just be deleted, but I'm not quite

> ready to do that yet.

> 

> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

> ---

>  Documentation/process/submitting-drivers.rst | 8 ++++++++

>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

> 

> diff --git a/Documentation/process/submitting-drivers.rst b/Documentation/process/submitting-drivers.rst

> index 0939d018c289..afb82ee0cbea 100644

> --- a/Documentation/process/submitting-drivers.rst

> +++ b/Documentation/process/submitting-drivers.rst

> @@ -8,6 +8,14 @@ various kernel trees. Note that if you are interested in video card drivers

>  you should probably talk to XFree86 (http://www.xfree86.org/) and/or X.Org

>  (http://x.org/) instead.

>  

> +.. note::

> +

> +   This document is old and has seen little maintenance in recent years; it

> +   should probably be updated or, perhaps better, just deleted.  Most of

> +   what is here can be found in the other development documents anyway.

> +

> +   Oh, and we don't really recommend submitting changes to XFree86 :)


Yeah, at least the XFree86 part should be stripped ;)

I guess the other parts should be verified if they're all there at the
process book before nuking this one.

Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>


> +

>  Also read the Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst document.

>  

>  




Thanks,
Mauro
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diff --git a/Documentation/process/submitting-drivers.rst b/Documentation/process/submitting-drivers.rst
index 0939d018c289..afb82ee0cbea 100644
--- a/Documentation/process/submitting-drivers.rst
+++ b/Documentation/process/submitting-drivers.rst
@@ -8,6 +8,14 @@  various kernel trees. Note that if you are interested in video card drivers
 you should probably talk to XFree86 (http://www.xfree86.org/) and/or X.Org
 (http://x.org/) instead.
 
+.. note::
+
+   This document is old and has seen little maintenance in recent years; it
+   should probably be updated or, perhaps better, just deleted.  Most of
+   what is here can be found in the other development documents anyway.
+
+   Oh, and we don't really recommend submitting changes to XFree86 :)
+
 Also read the Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst document.