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Tomasz Warniełło authored
The NAME section provides the doc title, while SYNOPSIS contains
the basic syntax and usage description, which will be printed
in the help document and in the error output produced on wrong script
usage.

The rationale is to give users simple and succinct enlightment,
at the same time structuring the script internally for the maintainers.

In the synopsis, Rst-only options are grouped around rst, and the rest is
arranged as in the OPTIONS subsections (yet to be translated into POD,
check at the end of the series).

The third of the basic sections, DESCRIPTION, is added separately.

Signed-off-by: default avatarTomasz Warniełło <tomasz.warniello@gmail.com>
Tested-by: default avatarRandy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Acked-by: default avatarRandy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Disliked-by: default avatarAkira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220218181628.1411551-2-tomasz.warniello@gmail.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.