Merge tag 'docs-5.13' of git://git.lwn.net/linux
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
"It's been a relatively busy cycle in docsland, though more than
usually well contained to Documentation/ itself. Highlights include:
- The Chinese translators have been busy and show no signs of
stopping anytime soon. Italian has also caught up.
- Aditya Srivastava has been working on improvements to the
kernel-doc script.
- Thorsten continues his work on reporting-issues.rst and related
documentation around regression reporting.
- Lots of documentation updates, typo fixes, etc. as usual"
* tag 'docs-5.13' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (139 commits)
docs/zh_CN: add openrisc translation to zh_CN index
docs/zh_CN: add openrisc index.rst translation
docs/zh_CN: add openrisc todo.rst translation
docs/zh_CN: add openrisc openrisc_port.rst translation
docs/zh_CN: add core api translation to zh_CN index
docs/zh_CN: add core-api index.rst translation
docs/zh_CN: add core-api irq index.rst translation
docs/zh_CN: add core-api irq irqflags-tracing.rst translation
docs/zh_CN: add core-api irq irq-domain.rst translation
docs/zh_CN: add core-api irq irq-affinity.rst translation
docs/zh_CN: add core-api irq concepts.rst translation
docs: sphinx-pre-install: don't barf on beta Sphinx releases
scripts: kernel-doc: improve parsing for kernel-doc comments syntax
docs/zh_CN: two minor fixes in zh_CN/doc-guide/
Documentation: dev-tools: Add Testing Overview
docs/zh_CN: add translations in zh_CN/dev-tools/gcov
docs: reporting-issues: make people CC the regressions list
MAINTAINERS: add regressions mailing list
doc:it_IT: align Italian documentation
docs/zh_CN: sync reporting-issues.rst
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@@ -341,6 +341,16 @@ that you have sent your patches to the right place. Wait for a minimum of
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one week before resubmitting or pinging reviewers - possibly longer during
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busy times like merge windows.
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It's also ok to resend the patch or the patch series after a couple of
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weeks with the word "RESEND" added to the subject line::
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[PATCH Vx RESEND] sub/sys: Condensed patch summary
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Don't add "RESEND" when you are submitting a modified version of your
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patch or patch series - "RESEND" only applies to resubmission of a
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patch or patch series which have not been modified in any way from the
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previous submission.
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Include PATCH in the subject
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@@ -625,16 +635,19 @@ not considered part of the summary phrase, but describe how the patch
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should be treated. Common tags might include a version descriptor if
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the multiple versions of the patch have been sent out in response to
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comments (i.e., "v1, v2, v3"), or "RFC" to indicate a request for
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comments. If there are four patches in a patch series the individual
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patches may be numbered like this: 1/4, 2/4, 3/4, 4/4. This assures
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that developers understand the order in which the patches should be
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applied and that they have reviewed or applied all of the patches in
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the patch series.
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comments.
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A couple of example Subjects::
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If there are four patches in a patch series the individual patches may
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be numbered like this: 1/4, 2/4, 3/4, 4/4. This assures that developers
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understand the order in which the patches should be applied and that
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they have reviewed or applied all of the patches in the patch series.
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Here are some good example Subjects::
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Subject: [PATCH 2/5] ext2: improve scalability of bitmap searching
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Subject: [PATCH v2 01/27] x86: fix eflags tracking
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Subject: [PATCH v2] sub/sys: Condensed patch summary
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Subject: [PATCH v2 M/N] sub/sys: Condensed patch summary
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The ``from`` line must be the very first line in the message body,
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and has the form:
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the patch author in the changelog.
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The explanation body will be committed to the permanent source
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changelog, so should make sense to a competent reader who has long
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since forgotten the immediate details of the discussion that might
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have led to this patch. Including symptoms of the failure which the
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patch addresses (kernel log messages, oops messages, etc.) is
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especially useful for people who might be searching the commit logs
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looking for the applicable patch. If a patch fixes a compile failure,
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it may not be necessary to include _all_ of the compile failures; just
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enough that it is likely that someone searching for the patch can find
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it. As in the ``summary phrase``, it is important to be both succinct as
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well as descriptive.
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changelog, so should make sense to a competent reader who has long since
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forgotten the immediate details of the discussion that might have led to
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this patch. Including symptoms of the failure which the patch addresses
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(kernel log messages, oops messages, etc.) are especially useful for
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people who might be searching the commit logs looking for the applicable
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patch. The text should be written in such detail so that when read
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weeks, months or even years later, it can give the reader the needed
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details to grasp the reasoning for **why** the patch was created.
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The ``---`` marker line serves the essential purpose of marking for patch
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handling tools where the changelog message ends.
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If a patch fixes a compile failure, it may not be necessary to include
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_all_ of the compile failures; just enough that it is likely that
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someone searching for the patch can find it. As in the ``summary
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phrase``, it is important to be both succinct as well as descriptive.
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One good use for the additional comments after the ``---`` marker is for
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a ``diffstat``, to show what files have changed, and the number of
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inserted and deleted lines per file. A ``diffstat`` is especially useful
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on bigger patches. Other comments relevant only to the moment or the
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maintainer, not suitable for the permanent changelog, should also go
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here. A good example of such comments might be ``patch changelogs``
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which describe what has changed between the v1 and v2 version of the
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patch.
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The ``---`` marker line serves the essential purpose of marking for
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patch handling tools where the changelog message ends.
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If you are going to include a ``diffstat`` after the ``---`` marker, please
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use ``diffstat`` options ``-p 1 -w 70`` so that filenames are listed from
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the top of the kernel source tree and don't use too much horizontal
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space (easily fit in 80 columns, maybe with some indentation). (``git``
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generates appropriate diffstats by default.)
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One good use for the additional comments after the ``---`` marker is
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for a ``diffstat``, to show what files have changed, and the number of
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inserted and deleted lines per file. A ``diffstat`` is especially useful
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on bigger patches. If you are going to include a ``diffstat`` after the
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``---`` marker, please use ``diffstat`` options ``-p 1 -w 70`` so that
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filenames are listed from the top of the kernel source tree and don't
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use too much horizontal space (easily fit in 80 columns, maybe with some
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indentation). (``git`` generates appropriate diffstats by default.)
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Other comments relevant only to the moment or the maintainer, not
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suitable for the permanent changelog, should also go here. A good
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example of such comments might be ``patch changelogs`` which describe
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what has changed between the v1 and v2 version of the patch.
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Please put this information **after** the ``---`` line which separates
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the changelog from the rest of the patch. The version information is
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not part of the changelog which gets committed to the git tree. It is
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additional information for the reviewers. If it's placed above the
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commit tags, it needs manual interaction to remove it. If it is below
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the separator line, it gets automatically stripped off when applying the
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patch::
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<commit message>
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Signed-off-by: Author <author@mail>
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---
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V2 -> V3: Removed redundant helper function
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V1 -> V2: Cleaned up coding style and addressed review comments
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path/to/file | 5+++--
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See more details on the proper patch format in the following
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references.
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