Pull Documentation stragglers from Jonathan Corbet:
"A handful of documentation patches that were ready before the merge
window, but which I didn't get merged for the first round:
- A recommendation from Thorsten (also akpm) on use of Link tags to
point out problem reports
- Some front-page formatting tweaks
- Another Spanish translation
- One typo(ish) fix"
* tag 'docs-6.3-2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux:
docs: recommend using Link: whenever using Reported-by:
Documentation: front page: use recommended heading adornments
docs/sp_SP: Add process programming-language translation
docs: locking: refer to the actual existing config names
Long long ago, in a more innocent time, Greg wrote the clarification for
how the DCO should work and that you couldn't make anonymous
contributions, because the sign-off needed to be something we could
check back with.
It was 2006, and nobody reacted to the wording, the whole Facebook 'real
name' controversy was a decade in the future, and nobody even thought
about it. And despite the language, we've always accepted nicknames and
that language was never meant to be any kind of exclusionary wording.
In fact, even when it became a discussion in other adjacent projects,
apparently nobody even thought to just clarify the language in the
kernel docs, and instead we had projects like the CNCF that had long
discussions about it, and wrote their own clarifications [1] of it.
Just simplify the wording to the point where it shouldn't be causing
unnecessary angst and pain, or scare away people who go by preferred
naming.
Link: https://github.com/cncf/foundation/blob/659fd32c86dc/dco-guidelines.md [1]
Fixes: af45f32d25cc ("We can not allow anonymous contributions to the kernel")
Acked-by: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Acked-by: Michael Dolan <mdolan@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Pull driver core updates from Greg KH:
"Here is the large set of driver core changes for 6.3-rc1.
There's a lot of changes this development cycle, most of the work
falls into two different categories:
- fw_devlink fixes and updates. This has gone through numerous review
cycles and lots of review and testing by lots of different devices.
Hopefully all should be good now, and Saravana will be keeping a
watch for any potential regression on odd embedded systems.
- driver core changes to work to make struct bus_type able to be
moved into read-only memory (i.e. const) The recent work with Rust
has pointed out a number of areas in the driver core where we are
passing around and working with structures that really do not have
to be dynamic at all, and they should be able to be read-only
making things safer overall. This is the contuation of that work
(started last release with kobject changes) in moving struct
bus_type to be constant. We didn't quite make it for this release,
but the remaining patches will be finished up for the release after
this one, but the groundwork has been laid for this effort.
Other than that we have in here:
- debugfs memory leak fixes in some subsystems
- error path cleanups and fixes for some never-able-to-be-hit
codepaths.
- cacheinfo rework and fixes
- Other tiny fixes, full details are in the shortlog
All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported
problems"
[ Geert Uytterhoeven points out that that last sentence isn't true, and
that there's a pending report that has a fix that is queued up - Linus ]
* tag 'driver-core-6.3-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (124 commits)
debugfs: drop inline constant formatting for ERR_PTR(-ERROR)
OPP: fix error checking in opp_migrate_dentry()
debugfs: update comment of debugfs_rename()
i3c: fix device.h kernel-doc warnings
dma-mapping: no need to pass a bus_type into get_arch_dma_ops()
driver core: class: move EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() lines to the correct place
Revert "driver core: add error handling for devtmpfs_create_node()"
Revert "devtmpfs: add debug info to handle()"
Revert "devtmpfs: remove return value of devtmpfs_delete_node()"
driver core: cpu: don't hand-override the uevent bus_type callback.
devtmpfs: remove return value of devtmpfs_delete_node()
devtmpfs: add debug info to handle()
driver core: add error handling for devtmpfs_create_node()
driver core: bus: update my copyright notice
driver core: bus: add bus_get_dev_root() function
driver core: bus: constify bus_unregister()
driver core: bus: constify some internal functions
driver core: bus: constify bus_get_kset()
driver core: bus: constify bus_register/unregister_notifier()
driver core: remove private pointer from struct bus_type
...
Encourage developers to place Link: tag pointing to the report when they are using Reported-by: tags. Those links are often extremely useful for any code archaeologist that wants to know more about the backstory of a change than the commit message provides. That includes maintainers higher up in the patch-flow hierarchy, which is why Linus asks developers to add such links [1, 2, 3]. To quote [1]: > Again, the commit has a link to the patch *submission*, which is > almost entirely useless. There's no link to the actual problem the > patch fixes. > > [...] > > Put another way: I can see that > > Reported-by: Zhangfei Gao <zhangfei.gao@foxmail.com> > > in the commit, but I don't have a clue what the actual report was, and > there really isn't enough information in the commit itself, except for > a fairly handwavy "Device drivers might, for instance, still need to > flush operations.." > > I don't want to know what device drivers _might_ do. I would want to > have an actual pointer to what they do and where. Another reason why these links are wanted: the ongoing regression tracking efforts can only scale with them, as they allow the regression tracking bot 'regzbot' to automatically connect tracked reports with patches that are posted or committed to fix tracked regressions. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=wjMmSZzMJ3Xnskdg4+GGz=5p5p+GSYyFBTh0f-DgvdBWg@mail.gmail.com/ [1] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=wgs38ZrfPvy=nOwVkVzjpM3VFU1zobP37Fwd_h9iAD5JQ@mail.gmail.com/ [2] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=wjxzafG-=J8oT30s7upn4RhBs6TX-uVFZ5rME+L5_DoJA@mail.gmail.com/ [3] Signed-off-by: Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/9a07ec640d809723492f8ade4f54705914e80419.1676369564.git.linux@leemhuis.info Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "It has been a moderately calm cycle for documentation; the significant changes include: - Some significant additions to the memory-management documentation - Some improvements to navigation in the HTML-rendered docs - More Spanish and Chinese translations ... and the usual set of typo fixes and such" * tag 'docs-6.3' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (68 commits) Documentation/watchdog/hpwdt: Fix Format Documentation/watchdog/hpwdt: Fix Reference Documentation: core-api: padata: correct spelling docs/mm: Physical Memory: correct spelling in reference to CONFIG_PAGE_EXTENSION docs: Use HTML comments for the kernel-toc SPDX line docs: Add more information to the HTML sidebar Documentation: KVM: Update AMD memory encryption link printk: Document that CONFIG_BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY required for boot_delay= Documentation: userspace-api: correct spelling Documentation: sparc: correct spelling Documentation: driver-api: correct spelling Documentation: admin-guide: correct spelling docs: add workload-tracing document to admin-guide docs/admin-guide/mm: remove useless markup docs/mm: remove useless markup docs/mm: Physical Memory: remove useless markup docs/sp_SP: Add process magic-number translation docs: ftrace: always use canonical ftrace path Doc/damon: fix the data path error dma-buf: Add "dma-buf" to title of documentation ...
After discussions internally at the company, Javier has been volunteered and is willing to be the embargoed hardware contact for Samsung. Cc: Javier González <javier.gonz@samsung.com> Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof.c@samsung.com> Acked-by: Javier González <javier.gonz@samsung.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230123215255.381312-1-mcgrof@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
There wasn't any mention of when/where DECLARE_FLEX_ARRAY() should be used, so add the rationale and an example to the deprecation docs. Suggested-by: Vincent Mailhol <mailhol.vincent@wanadoo.fr> Cc: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230106200600.never.735-kees@kernel.org [jc: minor wording tweaks] Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Proton Mail automatically picks up PGP keys for those with kernel.org accounts (and other domains!) which provide WKD for their users & uses them to encrypt emails, including patches. Document the behaviour & Proton Mail's unsuitability for kernel development. Reviewed-by: Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org> Reviewed-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@microchip.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221231152320.1340874-1-conor@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
The type contained a typo `uintprt` -> `uintptr` Signed-off-by: Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@vaga.pv.it> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221230172328.58612-1-federico.vaga@vaga.pv.it Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
It is finally becoming increasingly rare to find a distribution that still ships with gnupg-1.x, so remove the last vestiges of "gpg" vs "gpg2" from documentation. Similarly, starting with GnuPG 2.2 and above, the default --gen-key operation creates ed25519/cv25519 keypairs, so update all example command outputs to use that combination instead of rsa2048. Lastly, add a few wording tweaks and remove links that lead to stale information (e.g. hardware tokens overview from 2017). Signed-off-by: Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221220-docs-pgp-guide-v1-1-9b0c0bf974fb@linuxfoundation.org Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>