From patchwork Wed Oct 26 23:19:38 2016 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Jonathan Corbet X-Patchwork-Id: 79555 Delivered-To: patch@linaro.org Received: by 10.140.97.247 with SMTP id m110csp330626qge; Wed, 26 Oct 2016 16:21:05 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.98.108.4 with SMTP id h4mr8468875pfc.11.1477524065668; Wed, 26 Oct 2016 16:21:05 -0700 (PDT) Return-Path: Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org. [209.132.180.67]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id q1si4947242pga.217.2016.10.26.16.21.05; Wed, 26 Oct 2016 16:21:05 -0700 (PDT) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: best guess record for domain of linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org designates 209.132.180.67 as permitted sender) client-ip=209.132.180.67; Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: best guess record for domain of linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org designates 209.132.180.67 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S941883AbcJZXUp (ORCPT + 27 others); Wed, 26 Oct 2016 19:20:45 -0400 Received: from tex.lwn.net ([70.33.254.29]:33776 "EHLO vena.lwn.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S936276AbcJZXUL (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Oct 2016 19:20:11 -0400 Received: from tpad.lwn.net (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by vena.lwn.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id DEE4F1540043; Wed, 26 Oct 2016 17:20:10 -0600 (MDT) From: Jonathan Corbet To: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jani Nikula , Mauro Carvalho Chehab , Jonathan Corbet Subject: [PATCH 10/11] docs: add a warning to submitting-drivers.rst Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2016 17:19:38 -0600 Message-Id: <1477523979-5837-11-git-send-email-corbet@lwn.net> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.7.4 In-Reply-To: <1477523979-5837-1-git-send-email-corbet@lwn.net> References: <1477523979-5837-1-git-send-email-corbet@lwn.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 --- Documentation/process/submitting-drivers.rst | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) -- 2.7.4 Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab 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.