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Merge tag 'docs-6.13-2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

2024-11-26T21:44:27Z

Pull more documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "A few late-arriving fixes, plus two more significant changes that were *almost* ready at the beginning of the merge window: - A new document on debugging techniques from Sebastian Fricke - A clarification on MODULE_LICENSE terms meant to head off the sort of confusion that led to the recent Tuxedo Computers mess" * tag 'docs-6.13-2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: docs: Add debugging guide for the media subsystem docs: Add debugging section to process docs/licensing: Clarify wording about "GPL" and "Proprietary" docs: core-api/gfp_mask-from-fs-io: indicate that vmalloc supports GFP_NOFS/GFP_NOIO Documentation: kernel-doc: enumerate identifier *type*s Documentation: pwrseq: Fix trivial misspellings Documentation: filesystems: update filename extensions

docs: Add debugging guide for the media subsystem

2024-11-22T17:48:12Z

Provide a guide for developers on how to debug code with a focus on the media subsystem. This document aims to provide a rough overview over the possibilities and a rational to help choosing the right tool for the given circumstances. Signed-off-by: Sebastian Fricke Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241028-media_docs_improve_v3-v3-2-edf5c5b3746f@collabora.com

docs: Add debugging section to process

2024-11-22T17:48:12Z

This idea was formed after noticing that new developers experience certain difficulty to navigate within the multitude of different debugging options in the Kernel and while there often is good documentation for the tools, the developer has to know first that they exist and where to find them. Add a general debugging section to the Kernel documentation, as an easily locatable entry point to other documentation and as a general guideline for the topic. Signed-off-by: Sebastian Fricke Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241028-media_docs_improve_v3-v3-1-edf5c5b3746f@collabora.com

docs/licensing: Clarify wording about "GPL" and "Proprietary"

2024-11-22T17:44:25Z

There are currently some doubts about out-of-tree kernel modules licensed under GPLv3 and if they are supposed to be able to use symbols exported using EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL. Clarify that "Proprietary" means anything non-GPL2 even though the license might be an open source license. Also disambiguate "GPL compatible" to "GPLv2 compatible". Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241115103842.585207-2-ukleinek@kernel.org

Merge tag 'docs-6.13' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

2024-11-20T17:16:45Z

Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "Another moderately busy cycle in docsland: - Work on Chinese translations has picked up again. Happily, they are maintaining the existing translations and not just adding new ones. - Some maintenance of the Japanese and Italian translations as well. - The removal of the venerable "dontdiff" file. It has long outlived its usefulness and contained entries ("parse.*") that would actively mask actual source change. - The addition of enforcement information to the code-of-conduct documentation. Along with some build-system fixes and a lot of typo and language fixes" * tag 'docs-6.13' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (52 commits) Documentation/CoC: spell out enforcement for unacceptable behaviors docs: fix typos and whitespace in Documentation/process/backporting.rst docs/zh_CN: fix one sentence in llvm.rst docs: bug-bisect: add a note about bisecting -next docs/zh_CN: add the translation of kbuild/llvm.rst Documentation: Fix incorrect paths/magic in magic numbers rst Documentation/maintainer-tip: Fix typos Documentation: Improve crash_kexec_post_notifiers description Docs/zh_CN: Translate physical_memory.rst to Simplified Chinese Documentation: admin: reorganize kernel-parameters intro docs/zh_CN: update the translation of process/programming-language.rst docs/zh_CN: update the translation of mm/page_owner.rst docs/zh_CN: update the translation of mm/page_table_check.rst docs/zh_CN: update the translation of mm/overcommit-accounting.rst docs/zh_CN: update the translation of mm/admon/faq.rst docs/zh_CN: update the translation of mm/active_mm.rst docs/zh_CN: update the translation of mm/hmm.rst docs: remove Documentation/dontdiff docs/zh_CN: Add a entry in Chinese glossary Docs/zh_CN: Fix the pfn calculation error in page_tables.rst ...

Documentation/CoC: spell out enforcement for unacceptable behaviors

2024-11-15T21:31:59Z

The Code of Conduct committee's goal first and foremost is to bring about change to ensure our community continues to foster respectful discussions. In the interest of transparency, the CoC enforcement policy is formalized for unacceptable behaviors. Update the Code of Conduct Interpretation document with the enforcement information. Acked-by: Linus Torvalds Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Acked-by: Miguel Ojeda Acked-by: Dave Hansen Acked-by: Jonathan Corbet Acked-by: Steven Rostedt Acked-by: Dan Williams Acked-by: Theodore Ts'o Acked-by: Konstantin Ryabitsev Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan Acked-by: Kees Cook Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241114205649.44179-1-skhan@linuxfoundation.org

docs: fix typos and whitespace in Documentation/process/backporting.rst

2024-11-12T20:22:16Z

- Fix repeated word "when" in backporting documentation - Remove trailing whitespace after '$' character These issues were reported by checkpatch.pl. No functional changes. Signed-off-by: Abhinav Saxena Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241107061911.106040-1-xandfury@gmail.com

Documentation/maintainer-tip: Fix typos

2024-11-04T19:29:33Z

Fix typos in documentation: a -> an. Signed-off-by: Andrew Kreimer Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241027125712.19141-1-algonell@gmail.com

docs: remove Documentation/dontdiff

2024-10-24T18:37:12Z

The dontdiff file is a relic from the pre-Git era that has little use now. It has entries (parse.c, for example) that will mask real changes to kernel source files. There are all kinds of entries for files we do not create anymore. Rather than try to fix it up, simply remove it. Update the kernel documentation (and translations) to remove references to this file. There is an ancient Japanese translation of SubmittingPatches that I am unable to update; that really needs a thorough redo. Message-ID: <87y12m1zk4.fsf@trenco.lwn.net> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet

Merge tag 'arm-fixes-6.12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/soc/soc

2024-10-17T16:43:36Z

Pull SoC fixes from Arnd Bergmann: "Most of the fixes this time are for platform specific drivers, addressing issues found through build testing on freescale, ep93xx, starfive, and npcm platforms, as as well as the ffa firmware. The fixes for the scmi firmware driver address compatibility problems found on broadcom machines. There are only two devicetree fixes, addressing incorrect in configuration on broadcom and marvell machines. The changes to the Documentation and MAINTAINERS files are for clarification only" * tag 'arm-fixes-6.12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/soc/soc: firmware: arm_ffa: Avoid string-fortify warning caused by memcpy() firmware: arm_scmi: Queue in scmi layer for mailbox implementation firmware: arm_ffa: Avoid string-fortify warning in export_uuid() firmware: arm_scmi: Give SMC transport precedence over mailbox firmware: arm_scmi: Fix the double free in scmi_debugfs_common_setup() Documentation/process: maintainer-soc: clarify submitting patches dmaengine: cirrus: check that output may be truncated dmaengine: cirrus: ERR_CAST() ioremap error MAINTAINERS: use the canonical soc mailing list address and mark it as L: ARM: dts: bcm2837-rpi-cm3-io3: Fix HDMI hpd-gpio pin arm64: dts: marvell: cn9130-sr-som: fix cp0 mdio pin numbers soc: fsl: cpm1: qmc: Fix unused data compilation warning soc: fsl: cpm1: qmc: Do not use IS_ERR_VALUE() on error pointers reset: starfive: jh71x0: Fix accessing the empty member on JH7110 SoC reset: npcm: convert comma to semicolon