coming shortly: series of simple kernel questions i should know the answers to

[Greg KH]

On Wed, Apr 01, 2015 at 07:38:22AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Apr 2015, Greg KH wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Apr 01, 2015 at 07:21:38AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > >   a lot of the early questions will be based on clarifying details of
> > > the driver model, as the current documentation under
> > > Documentation/driver-model/ is somewhat out of date so i desperately
> > > need to put together something far more current.
> >
> > I'll gladly accept patches to fix up the in-kernel documentation for
> > the driver-model.  A number of things have changed in this area over
> > the past years, especially in the power managment area.
> >
> > But really, almost no "normal" developer has to mess with the kernel
> > at this layer, it's rare that someone writes a new bus or subsystem.
> >
> > Ok, well, we add about one new one every kernel release, so there
> > would be 6 new developers a year that could benifit from better
> > documentation, not a huge number :)
> 
>   you might be surprised at how simple some of my questions are going
> to be. :-) and, yes, i'll see what i can contribute to the in-kernel
> documentation -- under Documentation/driver-model, certainly, the
> "class.txt" file looks pretty badly out of date. or is any of that
> content even being kept up to date given the DocBook content?

I don't remember, sorry, haven't looked at it in years.

greg k-h