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authorJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>2016-10-26 16:45:29 -0600
committerJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>2016-10-27 16:38:06 -0600
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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 <mchehab@s-opensource.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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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.