From 31b24bee33572031632c33091bb73ed0e949c53a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jonathan Corbet Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2016 16:45:29 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] docs: add a warning to submitting-drivers.rst 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 Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet --- Documentation/process/submitting-drivers.rst | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/process/submitting-drivers.rst b/Documentation/process/submitting-drivers.rst index 0939d018c289..afb82ee0cbea 100644 --- a/Documentation/process/submitting-drivers.rst +++ b/Documentation/process/submitting-drivers.rst @@ -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. -- 2.20.1