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authorMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2021-08-31 03:00:55 +0200
committerMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2021-08-31 03:06:45 +0200
commit8a5fc410a9e14860b9e332cded43b90507ba0591 (patch)
tree7fbf6d556886f6e95b1d66e1269e4e6dfc49151a
parent77251857af4bea78958a1426f87c5856e2c7d15b (diff)
proc.5: Fixes various references to kernel docs in Documentation/
Especially the change to .rst format in the kernel Documentation/ tree has rendered many of the references in this manual page obsolete. Fix them. Reported-by: Vito Caputo <vcaputo@pengaru.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
-rw-r--r--man5/proc.525
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/man5/proc.5 b/man5/proc.5
index 3240d3466..c6684620e 100644
--- a/man5/proc.5
+++ b/man5/proc.5
@@ -1519,8 +1519,11 @@ See
for a description of these fields.
Parsers should ignore all unrecognized optional fields.
.IP
-For more information on mount propagation see:
+For more information on mount propagation see
+.I Documentation/filesystems/sharedsubtree.rst
+(or
.I Documentation/filesystems/sharedsubtree.txt
+before Linux 5.8)
in the Linux kernel source tree.
.TP
.IR /proc/[pid]/mounts " (since Linux 2.4.19)"
@@ -3159,7 +3162,10 @@ This can be used by MAKEDEV scripts for consistency with the kernel.
.IR /proc/diskstats " (since Linux 2.5.69)"
This file contains disk I/O statistics for each disk device.
See the Linux kernel source file
+.I ./Documentation/admin\-guide/iostats.rst
+(or
.I Documentation/iostats.txt
+before Linux 5.3)
for further information.
.TP
.I /proc/dma
@@ -3831,9 +3837,11 @@ The format of this file is documented in
.I /proc/mtrr
Memory Type Range Registers.
See the Linux kernel source file
+.I Documentation/x86/mtrr.rst
+(or
.I Documentation/x86/mtrr.txt
.\" commit 7225e75144b9718cbbe1820d9c011c809d5773fd
-(or
+before Linux 5.2, or
.I Documentation/mtrr.txt
before Linux 2.6.28)
for details.
@@ -4375,7 +4383,10 @@ Using other separators leads to the error
This directory may contain files with application binary information.
.\" On some systems, it is not present.
See the Linux kernel source file
+.I Documentation/sysctl/abi.rst
+(or
.I Documentation/sysctl/abi.txt
+before Linux 5.3)
for more information.
.TP
.I /proc/sys/debug
@@ -6843,9 +6854,9 @@ of thing that needs to be updated very often.
.BR sysctl (8)
.PP
The Linux kernel source files:
-.IR Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt ,
-.IR Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt ,
-.IR Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt ,
-.IR Documentation/sysctl/net.txt ,
+.IR Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst ,
+.IR Documentation/admin\-guide/sysctl/fs.rst ,
+.IR Documentation/admin\-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst ,
+.IR Documentation/admin\-guide/sysctl/net.rst ,
and
-.IR Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt .
+.IR Documentation/admin\-guide/sysctl/vm.rst .