| Message ID | 1477523979-5837-11-git-send-email-corbet@lwn.net |
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| State | Accepted |
| Commit | 31b24bee33572031632c33091bb73ed0e949c53a |
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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
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.
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(+) -- 2.7.4