Commit 7358bb2f authored by Jonathan Corbet's avatar Jonathan Corbet

docs: Clean up and organize the admin guide a bit

The admin guide is a good start, but it's time to turn it into something
better than an unordered blob of files.  This is a first step in that
direction.  The TOC has been split up and annotated, the guides have been
reordered, and minor tweaks have been applied to a few of them.

One consequence of splitting up the TOC is that we don't really want to use
:numbered: anymore, since the count resets every time and there doesn't
seem to be a way to change that.  Eventually we probably want to group the
documents into sub-books, at which point we can go back to a single TOC,
but it's probably early to do that.
Reviewed-by: default avatarMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
parent 555af624
Linux Kernel User's Documentation The Linux kernel user's and administrator's guide
================================= =================================================
Contents: The following is a collection of user-oriented documents that have been
added to the kernel over time. There is, as yet, little overall order or
organization here — this material was not written to be a single, coherent
document! With luck things will improve quickly over time.
This initial section contains overall information, including the README
file describing the kernel as a whole, documentation on kernel parameters,
etc.
.. toctree:: .. toctree::
:maxdepth: 2 :maxdepth: 1
:numbered:
README README
kernel-parameters
devices
Here is a set of documents aimed at users who are trying to track down
problems and bugs in particular.
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 1
reporting-bugs reporting-bugs
security-bugs
bug-hunting bug-hunting
oops-tracing oops-tracing
ramoops ramoops
initrd
init
dynamic-debug-howto dynamic-debug-howto
security-bugs init
kernel-parameters
This is the beginning of a section with information of interest to
application developers. Documents covering various aspects of the kernel
ABI will be found here.
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 1
sysfs-rules
The rest of this manual consists of various unordered guides on how to
configure specific aspects of kernel behavior to your liking.
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 1
initrd
serial-console serial-console
braille-console braille-console
parport parport
...@@ -25,8 +55,6 @@ Contents: ...@@ -25,8 +55,6 @@ Contents:
sysrq sysrq
unicode unicode
vga-softcursor vga-softcursor
sysfs-rules
devices
binfmt-misc binfmt-misc
mono mono
java java
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Kernel Parameters The kernel's command-line parameters
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ====================================
The following is a consolidated list of the kernel parameters as The following is a consolidated list of the kernel parameters as
implemented by the __setup(), core_param() and module_param() macros implemented by the __setup(), core_param() and module_param() macros
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Rules on how to access information in the Linux kernel sysfs Rules on how to access information in sysfs
============================================================ ===========================================
The kernel-exported sysfs exports internal kernel implementation details The kernel-exported sysfs exports internal kernel implementation details
and depends on internal kernel structures and layout. It is agreed upon and depends on internal kernel structures and layout. It is agreed upon
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...@@ -50,8 +50,8 @@ third parameter ...@@ -50,8 +50,8 @@ third parameter
.. [#f1] see ``#define TRIDENT_GLITCH`` in ``drivers/video/vgacon.c``. .. [#f1] see ``#define TRIDENT_GLITCH`` in ``drivers/video/vgacon.c``.
Examples: Examples
========= --------
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