Wikibook Linux kernel

[Constantine Shulyupin]

Thank you, Ted, for pointing to https://wiki.kernel.org/.
Out of 29 wikis 8 are outdated. Here is a summary:
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/The_Linux_Kernel/wikis

Regards


On Thu, 6 May 2021 at 17:18, Theodore Ts'o <tytso at mit.edu> wrote:
>
> On Thu, May 06, 2021 at 01:58:35PM +0300, Constantine Shulyupin wrote:
> > Dear Linux kernel documentation writers and readers:
> >
> > Writing Linux documentation is a huge complex collaborative process.
> > To make it better I invite you to contribute to
> > https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/The_Linux_Kernel
>
> There are some wiki's that are available at *.wiki.kernel.org.  For
> example, ext4.wiki.kernel.org.  We've largely abandoned it, in favor
> of using Documentation in the kernel sources, because if you leave it
> "updated by anyone", unless you have people constantly watching for
> spam or trash updates which have to be reverted, it quickly becomes a
> mess.  Or you can keep tight control over who you give accounts to,
> but then it doesn't get updated all that often.
>
> Keeping the documentation in sync with the kernel sources means it's
> much more likely for the documentation to be updated when the kernel
> is updated, and so for example we've migrated:
>
> https://ext4.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Ext4_Disk_Layout
>
> to:
>
> https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/filesystems/ext4/index.html
>
> with the sources available at:
>
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4.git/tree/Documentation/filesystems/ext4
>
> ... and been much happier with the result.
>
> Cheers,
>
>                                         - Ted



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Constantine Shulyupin