Put like documents together, with the essential ones at the top, and split
the TOC into sections.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <cor...@lwn.net>
---
Documentation/process/changes.rst | 2 +-
Documentation/process/index.rst | 37 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
2 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/process/changes.rst
b/Documentation/process/changes.rst
index 22797a15dc24..56ce66114665 100644
--- a/Documentation/process/changes.rst
+++ b/Documentation/process/changes.rst
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
.. _changes:
-Minimal requerements to compile the Kernel
+Minimal requirements to compile the Kernel
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Intro
diff --git a/Documentation/process/index.rst b/Documentation/process/index.rst
index 6ee818752474..0cbc62adbbb1 100644
--- a/Documentation/process/index.rst
+++ b/Documentation/process/index.rst
@@ -4,29 +4,48 @@
\renewcommand\thesubsection*
-Linux Kernel Development Documentation
-======================================
+Working with the kernel development community
+=============================================
-Contents:
+So you want to be a Linux kernel developer? Welcome! While there is a lot
+to be learned about the kernel in a technical sense, it is also important
+to learn about how our community works. Reading these documents will make
+it much easier for you to get your changes merged with a minimum of
+trouble.
+
+Below are the essential guides that every developer should read.
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 2
howto
- changes
- coding-style
+ code-of-conflict
+ development-process
submitting-patches
+ coding-style
+ email-clients
+
+Other guides to the community that are of interest to most developers are:
+
+.. toctree::
+ :maxdepth: 2
+
+ changes
submitting-drivers
stable-api-nonsense
management-style
stable-kernel-rules
+ submit-checklist
kernel-docs
+
+These are some overall technical guides that have been put here for now for
+lack of a better place.
+
+.. toctree::
+ :maxdepth: 2
+
applying-patches
- email-clients
- submit-checklist
- code-of-conflict
adding-syscalls
magic-number
volatile-considered-harmful
- development-process
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