Merge tag 'docs-5.4' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
 "It's a somewhat calmer cycle for docs this time, as the churn of the
  mass RST conversion is happily mostly behind us.

   - A new document on reproducible builds.

   - We finally got around to zapping the documentation for hardware
     support that was removed in 2004; one doesn't want to rush these
     things.

   - The usual assortment of fixes, typo corrections, etc"

* tag 'docs-5.4' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (67 commits)
  Documentation: kbuild: Add document about reproducible builds
  docs: printk-formats: Stop encouraging use of unnecessary %h[xudi] and %hh[xudi]
  Documentation: Add "earlycon=sbi" to the admin guide
  doc:lock: remove reference to clever use of read-write lock
  devices.txt: improve entry for comedi (char major 98)
  docs: mtd: Update spi nor reference driver
  doc: arm64: fix grammar dtb placed in no attributes region
  Documentation: sysrq: don't recommend 'S' 'U' before 'B'
  mailmap: Update email address for Quentin Perret
  docs: ftrace: clarify when tracing is disabled by the trace file
  docs: process: fix broken link
  Documentation/arm/samsung-s3c24xx: Remove stray U+FEFF character to fix title
  Documentation/arm/sa1100/assabet: Fix 'make assabet_defconfig' command
  Documentation/arm/sa1100: Remove some obsolete documentation
  docs/zh_CN: update Chinese howto.rst for latexdocs making
  Documentation: virt: Fix broken reference to virt tree's index
  docs: Fix typo on pull requests guide
  kernel-doc: Allow anonymous enum
  Documentation: sphinx: Don't parse socket() as identifier reference
  Documentation: sphinx: Add missing comma to list of strings
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+============
+Introduction
+============
+
+  This is the client VFS module for the SMB3 NAS protocol as well
+  as for older dialects such as the Common Internet File System (CIFS)
+  protocol which was the successor to the Server Message Block
+  (SMB) protocol, the native file sharing mechanism for most early
+  PC operating systems. New and improved versions of CIFS are now
+  called SMB2 and SMB3. Use of SMB3 (and later, including SMB3.1.1)
+  is strongly preferred over using older dialects like CIFS due to
+  security reaasons. All modern dialects, including the most recent,
+  SMB3.1.1 are supported by the CIFS VFS module. The SMB3 protocol
+  is implemented and supported by all major file servers
+  such as all modern versions of Windows (including Windows 2016
+  Server), as well as by Samba (which provides excellent
+  CIFS/SMB2/SMB3 server support and tools for Linux and many other
+  operating systems).  Apple systems also support SMB3 well, as
+  do most Network Attached Storage vendors, so this network
+  filesystem client can mount to a wide variety of systems.
+  It also supports mounting to the cloud (for example
+  Microsoft Azure), including the necessary security features.
+
+  The intent of this module is to provide the most advanced network
+  file system function for SMB3 compliant servers, including advanced
+  security features, excellent parallelized high performance i/o, better
+  POSIX compliance, secure per-user session establishment, encryption,
+  high performance safe distributed caching (leases/oplocks), optional packet
+  signing, large files, Unicode support and other internationalization
+  improvements. Since both Samba server and this filesystem client support
+  the CIFS Unix extensions (and in the future SMB3 POSIX extensions),
+  the combination can provide a reasonable alternative to other network and
+  cluster file systems for fileserving in some Linux to Linux environments,
+  not just in Linux to Windows (or Linux to Mac) environments.
+
+  This filesystem has a mount utility (mount.cifs) and various user space
+  tools (including smbinfo and setcifsacl) that can be obtained from
+
+      https://git.samba.org/?p=cifs-utils.git
+
+  or
+
+      git://git.samba.org/cifs-utils.git
+
+  mount.cifs should be installed in the directory with the other mount helpers.
+
+  For more information on the module see the project wiki page at
+
+      https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/LinuxCIFS
+
+  and
+
+      https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/LinuxCIFS_utils