Documentation/SubmittingDrivers: convert it to ReST markup

- Change the document title markup to make it on a higher level;
- Add blank lines as needed, to improve the output;
- use italics for the country-code at kernel.org ftp URL.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

1 files changed, 31 insertions, 14 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingDrivers b/Documentation/SubmittingDrivers
index 31d372609ac0..a2f30a9e28d1 100644
--- a/Documentation/SubmittingDrivers
+++ b/Documentation/SubmittingDrivers
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 Submitting Drivers For The Linux Kernel
----------------------------------------
+=======================================
 
 This document is intended to explain how to submit device drivers to the
 various kernel trees. Note that if you are interested in video card drivers
@@ -46,34 +46,39 @@ Linux 2.6:
 What Criteria Determine Acceptance
 ----------------------------------
 
-Licensing:	The code must be released to us under the
+Licensing:
+		The code must be released to us under the
 		GNU General Public License. We don't insist on any kind
 		of exclusive GPL licensing, and if you wish the driver
 		to be useful to other communities such as BSD you may well
 		wish to release under multiple licenses.
 		See accepted licenses at include/linux/module.h
 
-Copyright:	The copyright owner must agree to use of GPL.
+Copyright:
+		The copyright owner must agree to use of GPL.
 		It's best if the submitter and copyright owner
 		are the same person/entity. If not, the name of
 		the person/entity authorizing use of GPL should be
 		listed in case it's necessary to verify the will of
 		the copyright owner.
 
-Interfaces:	If your driver uses existing interfaces and behaves like
+Interfaces:
+		If your driver uses existing interfaces and behaves like
 		other drivers in the same class it will be much more likely
 		to be accepted than if it invents gratuitous new ones.
 		If you need to implement a common API over Linux and NT
 		drivers do it in userspace.
 
-Code:		Please use the Linux style of code formatting as documented
+Code:
+		Please use the Linux style of code formatting as documented
 		in Documentation/CodingStyle. If you have sections of code
 		that need to be in other formats, for example because they
 		are shared with a windows driver kit and you want to
 		maintain them just once separate them out nicely and note
 		this fact.
 
-Portability:	Pointers are not always 32bits, not all computers are little
+Portability:
+		Pointers are not always 32bits, not all computers are little
 		endian, people do not all have floating point and you
 		shouldn't use inline x86 assembler in your driver without
 		careful thought. Pure x86 drivers generally are not popular.
@@ -81,12 +86,14 @@ Portability:	Pointers are not always 32bits, not all computers are little
 		but it is easy to make sure the code can easily be made
 		portable.
 
-Clarity:	It helps if anyone can see how to fix the driver. It helps
+Clarity:
+		It helps if anyone can see how to fix the driver. It helps
 		you because you get patches not bug reports. If you submit a
 		driver that intentionally obfuscates how the hardware works
 		it will go in the bitbucket.
 
-PM support:	Since Linux is used on many portable and desktop systems, your
+PM support:
+		Since Linux is used on many portable and desktop systems, your
 		driver is likely to be used on such a system and therefore it
 		should support basic power management by implementing, if
 		necessary, the .suspend and .resume methods used during the
@@ -101,7 +108,8 @@ PM support:	Since Linux is used on many portable and desktop systems, your
 		complete overview of the power management issues related to
 		drivers see Documentation/power/devices.txt .
 
-Control:	In general if there is active maintenance of a driver by
+Control:
+		In general if there is active maintenance of a driver by
 		the author then patches will be redirected to them unless
 		they are totally obvious and without need of checking.
 		If you want to be the contact and update point for the
@@ -111,13 +119,15 @@ Control:	In general if there is active maintenance of a driver by
 What Criteria Do Not Determine Acceptance
 -----------------------------------------
 
-Vendor:		Being the hardware vendor and maintaining the driver is
+Vendor:
+		Being the hardware vendor and maintaining the driver is
 		often a good thing. If there is a stable working driver from
 		other people already in the tree don't expect 'we are the
 		vendor' to get your driver chosen. Ideally work with the
 		existing driver author to build a single perfect driver.
 
-Author:		It doesn't matter if a large Linux company wrote the driver,
+Author:
+		It doesn't matter if a large Linux company wrote the driver,
 		or you did. Nobody has any special access to the kernel
 		tree. Anyone who tells you otherwise isn't telling the
 		whole story.
@@ -127,8 +137,10 @@ Resources
 ---------
 
 Linux kernel master tree:
-	ftp.??.kernel.org:/pub/linux/kernel/...
-	?? == your country code, such as "us", "uk", "fr", etc.
+	ftp.\ *country_code*\ .kernel.org:/pub/linux/kernel/...
+
+	where *country_code* == your country code, such as
+	**us**, **uk**, **fr**, etc.
 
 	http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git
 
@@ -141,14 +153,19 @@ Linux Device Drivers, Third Edition (covers 2.6.10):
 
 LWN.net:
 	Weekly summary of kernel development activity - http://lwn.net/
+
 	2.6 API changes:
+
 		http://lwn.net/Articles/2.6-kernel-api/
+
 	Porting drivers from prior kernels to 2.6:
+
 		http://lwn.net/Articles/driver-porting/
 
 KernelNewbies:
 	Documentation and assistance for new kernel programmers
-	http://kernelnewbies.org/
+
+		http://kernelnewbies.org/
 
 Linux USB project:
 	http://www.linux-usb.org/