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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2016-12-12 21:58:13 -0800 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2016-12-12 21:58:13 -0800 |
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Merge tag 'docs-4.10' of git://git.lwn.net/linux
Pull documentation update from Jonathan Corbet:
"These are the documentation changes for 4.10.
It's another busy cycle for the docs tree, as the sphinx conversion
continues. Highlights include:
- Further work on PDF output, which remains a bit of a pain but
should be more solid now.
- Five more DocBook template files converted to Sphinx. Only 27 to
go... Lots of plain-text files have also been converted and
integrated.
- Images in binary formats have been replaced with more
source-friendly versions.
- Various bits of organizational work, including the renaming of
various files discussed at the kernel summit.
- New documentation for the device_link mechanism.
... and, of course, lots of typo fixes and small updates"
* tag 'docs-4.10' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (193 commits)
dma-buf: Extract dma-buf.rst
Update Documentation/00-INDEX
docs: 00-INDEX: document directories/files with no docs
docs: 00-INDEX: remove non-existing entries
docs: 00-INDEX: add missing entries for documentation files/dirs
docs: 00-INDEX: consolidate process/ and admin-guide/ description
scripts: add a script to check if Documentation/00-INDEX is sane
Docs: change sh -> awk in REPORTING-BUGS
Documentation/core-api/device_link: Add initial documentation
core-api: remove an unexpected unident
ppc/idle: Add documentation for powersave=off
Doc: Correct typo, "Introdution" => "Introduction"
Documentation/atomic_ops.txt: convert to ReST markup
Documentation/local_ops.txt: convert to ReST markup
Documentation/assoc_array.txt: convert to ReST markup
docs-rst: parse-headers.pl: cleanup the documentation
docs-rst: fix media cleandocs target
docs-rst: media/Makefile: reorganize the rules
docs-rst: media: build SVG from graphviz files
docs-rst: replace bayer.png by a SVG image
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diff --git a/Documentation/doc-guide/docbook.rst b/Documentation/doc-guide/docbook.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..d8bf04308b43 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/doc-guide/docbook.rst @@ -0,0 +1,90 @@ +DocBook XML [DEPRECATED] +======================== + +.. attention:: + + This section describes the deprecated DocBook XML toolchain. Please do not + create new DocBook XML template files. Please consider converting existing + DocBook XML templates files to Sphinx/reStructuredText. + +Converting DocBook to Sphinx +---------------------------- + +Over time, we expect all of the documents under ``Documentation/DocBook`` to be +converted to Sphinx and reStructuredText. For most DocBook XML documents, a good +enough solution is to use the simple ``Documentation/sphinx/tmplcvt`` script, +which uses ``pandoc`` under the hood. For example:: + + $ cd Documentation/sphinx + $ ./tmplcvt ../DocBook/in.tmpl ../out.rst + +Then edit the resulting rst files to fix any remaining issues, and add the +document in the ``toctree`` in ``Documentation/index.rst``. + +Components of the kernel-doc system +----------------------------------- + +Many places in the source tree have extractable documentation in the form of +block comments above functions. The components of this system are: + +- ``scripts/kernel-doc`` + + This is a perl script that hunts for the block comments and can mark them up + directly into reStructuredText, DocBook, man, text, and HTML. (No, not + texinfo.) + +- ``Documentation/DocBook/*.tmpl`` + + These are XML template files, which are normal XML files with special + place-holders for where the extracted documentation should go. + +- ``scripts/docproc.c`` + + This is a program for converting XML template files into XML files. When a + file is referenced it is searched for symbols exported (EXPORT_SYMBOL), to be + able to distinguish between internal and external functions. + + It invokes kernel-doc, giving it the list of functions that are to be + documented. + + Additionally it is used to scan the XML template files to locate all the files + referenced herein. This is used to generate dependency information as used by + make. + +- ``Makefile`` + + The targets 'xmldocs', 'psdocs', 'pdfdocs', and 'htmldocs' are used to build + DocBook XML files, PostScript files, PDF files, and html files in + Documentation/DocBook. The older target 'sgmldocs' is equivalent to 'xmldocs'. + +- ``Documentation/DocBook/Makefile`` + + This is where C files are associated with SGML templates. + +How to use kernel-doc comments in DocBook XML template files +------------------------------------------------------------ + +DocBook XML template files (\*.tmpl) are like normal XML files, except that they +can contain escape sequences where extracted documentation should be inserted. + +``!E<filename>`` is replaced by the documentation, in ``<filename>``, for +functions that are exported using ``EXPORT_SYMBOL``: the function list is +collected from files listed in ``Documentation/DocBook/Makefile``. + +``!I<filename>`` is replaced by the documentation for functions that are **not** +exported using ``EXPORT_SYMBOL``. + +``!D<filename>`` is used to name additional files to search for functions +exported using ``EXPORT_SYMBOL``. + +``!F<filename> <function [functions...]>`` is replaced by the documentation, in +``<filename>``, for the functions listed. + +``!P<filename> <section title>`` is replaced by the contents of the ``DOC:`` +section titled ``<section title>`` from ``<filename>``. Spaces are allowed in +``<section title>``; do not quote the ``<section title>``. + +``!C<filename>`` is replaced by nothing, but makes the tools check that all DOC: +sections and documented functions, symbols, etc. are used. This makes sense to +use when you use ``!F`` or ``!P`` only and want to verify that all documentation +is included. |