docs: add a warning to submitting-drivers.rst
authorJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Wed, 26 Oct 2016 22:45:29 +0000 (16:45 -0600)
committerJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Thu, 27 Oct 2016 22:38:06 +0000 (16:38 -0600)
This is crufty stuff and should maybe just be deleted, but I'm not quite
ready to do that yet.

Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Documentation/process/submitting-drivers.rst

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@@ -8,6 +8,14 @@ various kernel trees. Note that if you are interested in video card drivers
 you should probably talk to XFree86 (http://www.xfree86.org/) and/or X.Org
 (http://x.org/) instead.
 
+.. note::
+
+   This document is old and has seen little maintenance in recent years; it
+   should probably be updated or, perhaps better, just deleted.  Most of
+   what is here can be found in the other development documents anyway.
+
+   Oh, and we don't really recommend submitting changes to XFree86 :)
+
 Also read the Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst document.