Jonathan Corbet | 7358bb2 | 2016-10-26 16:14:52 -0600 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | The Linux kernel user's and administrator's guide |
| 2 | ================================================= |
Mauro Carvalho Chehab | 9d85025 | 2016-09-21 09:51:11 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 3 | |
Jonathan Corbet | 7358bb2 | 2016-10-26 16:14:52 -0600 | [diff] [blame] | 4 | The following is a collection of user-oriented documents that have been |
| 5 | added to the kernel over time. There is, as yet, little overall order or |
| 6 | organization here — this material was not written to be a single, coherent |
| 7 | document! With luck things will improve quickly over time. |
| 8 | |
| 9 | This initial section contains overall information, including the README |
| 10 | file describing the kernel as a whole, documentation on kernel parameters, |
Mauro Carvalho Chehab | 337c188 | 2016-11-07 17:03:18 -0200 | [diff] [blame] | 11 | etc. |
Mauro Carvalho Chehab | 9d85025 | 2016-09-21 09:51:11 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 12 | |
| 13 | .. toctree:: |
Jonathan Corbet | 7358bb2 | 2016-10-26 16:14:52 -0600 | [diff] [blame] | 14 | :maxdepth: 1 |
Mauro Carvalho Chehab | 9d85025 | 2016-09-21 09:51:11 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 15 | |
| 16 | README |
Jonathan Corbet | 7358bb2 | 2016-10-26 16:14:52 -0600 | [diff] [blame] | 17 | kernel-parameters |
| 18 | devices |
| 19 | |
| 20 | Here is a set of documents aimed at users who are trying to track down |
| 21 | problems and bugs in particular. |
| 22 | |
| 23 | .. toctree:: |
| 24 | :maxdepth: 1 |
Mauro Carvalho Chehab | 337c188 | 2016-11-07 17:03:18 -0200 | [diff] [blame] | 25 | |
Mauro Carvalho Chehab | 9d85025 | 2016-09-21 09:51:11 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 26 | reporting-bugs |
Jonathan Corbet | 7358bb2 | 2016-10-26 16:14:52 -0600 | [diff] [blame] | 27 | security-bugs |
Mauro Carvalho Chehab | 9d85025 | 2016-09-21 09:51:11 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 28 | bug-hunting |
Mauro Carvalho Chehab | c730904 | 2016-11-07 17:03:17 -0200 | [diff] [blame] | 29 | bug-bisect |
Mauro Carvalho Chehab | 337c188 | 2016-11-07 17:03:18 -0200 | [diff] [blame] | 30 | tainted-kernels |
Mauro Carvalho Chehab | 9d85025 | 2016-09-21 09:51:11 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 31 | ramoops |
Mauro Carvalho Chehab | 9d85025 | 2016-09-21 09:51:11 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 32 | dynamic-debug-howto |
Jonathan Corbet | 7358bb2 | 2016-10-26 16:14:52 -0600 | [diff] [blame] | 33 | init |
| 34 | |
| 35 | This is the beginning of a section with information of interest to |
| 36 | application developers. Documents covering various aspects of the kernel |
| 37 | ABI will be found here. |
| 38 | |
| 39 | .. toctree:: |
| 40 | :maxdepth: 1 |
Mauro Carvalho Chehab | 337c188 | 2016-11-07 17:03:18 -0200 | [diff] [blame] | 41 | |
Jonathan Corbet | 7358bb2 | 2016-10-26 16:14:52 -0600 | [diff] [blame] | 42 | sysfs-rules |
| 43 | |
| 44 | The rest of this manual consists of various unordered guides on how to |
| 45 | configure specific aspects of kernel behavior to your liking. |
| 46 | |
| 47 | .. toctree:: |
| 48 | :maxdepth: 1 |
Mauro Carvalho Chehab | 337c188 | 2016-11-07 17:03:18 -0200 | [diff] [blame] | 49 | |
Jonathan Corbet | 7358bb2 | 2016-10-26 16:14:52 -0600 | [diff] [blame] | 50 | initrd |
Mauro Carvalho Chehab | b6e9d067 | 2018-05-09 10:18:45 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 51 | cgroup-v2 |
Mauro Carvalho Chehab | 9d85025 | 2016-09-21 09:51:11 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 52 | serial-console |
| 53 | braille-console |
| 54 | parport |
| 55 | md |
| 56 | module-signing |
| 57 | sysrq |
| 58 | unicode |
| 59 | vga-softcursor |
Mauro Carvalho Chehab | 9d85025 | 2016-09-21 09:51:11 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 60 | binfmt-misc |
| 61 | mono |
| 62 | java |
Mauro Carvalho Chehab | fd77f6b | 2016-10-26 16:24:41 -0200 | [diff] [blame] | 63 | ras |
Mauro Carvalho Chehab | fe8703c | 2018-05-07 06:35:40 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 64 | bcache |
Rafael J. Wysocki | 2a0e492 | 2017-03-13 23:59:57 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 65 | pm/index |
Mika Westerberg | 163f151 | 2017-06-06 15:25:18 +0300 | [diff] [blame] | 66 | thunderbolt |
Kees Cook | 504f231 | 2017-05-13 04:51:43 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 67 | LSM/index |
Mike Rapoport | 3a3f7e2 | 2018-04-18 11:07:48 +0300 | [diff] [blame] | 68 | mm/index |
Markus Heiser | 6f2ec3a | 2016-10-26 08:23:16 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 69 | |
| 70 | .. only:: subproject and html |
| 71 | |
| 72 | Indices |
| 73 | ======= |
| 74 | |
| 75 | * :ref:`genindex` |