docs: Clean up and organize the admin guide a bit
The admin guide is a good start, but it's time to turn it into something
better than an unordered blob of files. This is a first step in that
direction. The TOC has been split up and annotated, the guides have been
reordered, and minor tweaks have been applied to a few of them.
One consequence of splitting up the TOC is that we don't really want to use
:numbered: anymore, since the count resets every time and there doesn't
seem to be a way to change that. Eventually we probably want to group the
documents into sub-books, at which point we can go back to a single TOC,
but it's probably early to do that.
Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/index.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/index.rst
index 4e5abbb..2ce2bf0 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/index.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/index.rst
@@ -1,22 +1,52 @@
-Linux Kernel User's Documentation
-=================================
+The Linux kernel user's and administrator's guide
+=================================================
-Contents:
+The following is a collection of user-oriented documents that have been
+added to the kernel over time. There is, as yet, little overall order or
+organization here — this material was not written to be a single, coherent
+document! With luck things will improve quickly over time.
+
+This initial section contains overall information, including the README
+file describing the kernel as a whole, documentation on kernel parameters,
+etc.
.. toctree::
- :maxdepth: 2
- :numbered:
+ :maxdepth: 1
README
+ kernel-parameters
+ devices
+
+Here is a set of documents aimed at users who are trying to track down
+problems and bugs in particular.
+
+.. toctree::
+ :maxdepth: 1
+
reporting-bugs
+ security-bugs
bug-hunting
oops-tracing
ramoops
- initrd
- init
dynamic-debug-howto
- security-bugs
- kernel-parameters
+ init
+
+This is the beginning of a section with information of interest to
+application developers. Documents covering various aspects of the kernel
+ABI will be found here.
+
+.. toctree::
+ :maxdepth: 1
+
+ sysfs-rules
+
+The rest of this manual consists of various unordered guides on how to
+configure specific aspects of kernel behavior to your liking.
+
+.. toctree::
+ :maxdepth: 1
+
+ initrd
serial-console
braille-console
parport
@@ -25,8 +55,6 @@
sysrq
unicode
vga-softcursor
- sysfs-rules
- devices
binfmt-misc
mono
java