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From:   Costa Shulyupin <costa.shul@redhat.com>
Date:   Sat, 22 Jul 2023 05:21:56 +0300
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] docs: remove tree links from the main index
To:     Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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The left column "Contents" is overloaded and hard to use. The value of
this patch is to make it more usable.

Sections of the main page are not displayed after patch "docs: Add
more information to the HTML sidebar". So sections don't work now and
should be fixed too.

I have in mind to reorganize the main page so the left column
"Contents" becomes usable.

Thanks
Costa

On Fri, 21 Jul 2023 at 22:56, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> wrote:
>
> Costa Shulyupin <costa.shul@redhat.com> writes:
>
> > and leave only their neighbor subsystem-apis
> >
> > because these links are already listed under
> > section "Core subsystems" of Documentation/subsystem-apis.rst:
> >
> >     Core subsystems
> >     ---------------
> >
> >     .. toctree::
> >        :maxdepth: 1
> >
> >        core-api/index
> >        driver-api/index
> >        mm/index
> >        power/index
> >        scheduler/index
> >        timers/index
> >        locking/index
> >
> > Reference:
> > - https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/next/subsystem-apis.html#core-subsystems
> >
> > Motivation:
> > - make the documentation more organized
> > - increase consistency, observability and maintainability
> > - improve balance of ToC tree by reducing overly populated lists
> > - avoid duplicate parallel links
> > - escape tangling of links
> > - intention to fit the main index into one page
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Costa Shulyupin <costa.shul@redhat.com>
> > ---
> >  Documentation/index.rst | 3 ---
> >  1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/Documentation/index.rst b/Documentation/index.rst
> > index 9dfdc826618c..8d8b7eab1131 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/index.rst
> > +++ b/Documentation/index.rst
> > @@ -38,10 +38,7 @@ kernel.
> >  .. toctree::
> >     :maxdepth: 1
> >
> > -   core-api/index
> > -   driver-api/index
> >     subsystem-apis
> > -   Locking in the kernel <locking/index>
>
> So I don't really see the value of this.  It takes away some of the most
> important links from the documentation front page, leaving the "Internal
> API manuals" section nearly empty.  Why would we want to do this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> jon
>