Re: [PATCH v2 00/21] Convert hwmon documentation to ReST

[Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>]

Em Tue, 16 Apr 2019 20:49:31 -0700
Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> escreveu:

> On 4/16/19 6:58 PM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> > Em Tue, 16 Apr 2019 13:31:14 -0700
> > Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> escreveu:
> >   
> >> On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 02:19:49PM -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote:  
> >>> On Fri, 12 Apr 2019 20:09:16 -0700
> >>> Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> wrote:
> >>>      
> >>>> The big real-world question is: Is the series good enough for you to accept,
> >>>> or do you expect some level of user/kernel separation ?  
> >>>
> >>> I guess it can go in; it's forward progress, even if it doesn't make the
> >>> improvements I would like to see.
> >>>
> >>> The real question, I guess, is who should take it.  I've been seeing a
> >>> fair amount of activity on hwmon, so I suspect that the potential for
> >>> conflicts is real.  Perhaps things would go smoother if it went through
> >>> your tree?
> >>>      
> >> We'll see a number of conflicts, yes. In terms of timing, this is probably
> >> the worst release in the last few years to make such a change. I currently
> >> have 9 patches queued in hwmon-next which touch Documentation/hwmon.
> >> Of course the changes made in those are all not ReST compatible, and I have
> >> no idea what to look out for to make it compatible. So this is going to be
> >> fun (in a negative sense) either way.
> >>
> >> I don't really have a recommendation at this point; I think the best I could
> >> do to take the patches which don't generate conflicts and leave the rest
> >> alone. But that would also be bad, since the new index file would not match
> >> reality. No idea, really, what the best or even a useful approach would be.
> >>
> >> Maybe automated changes like this (assuming they are indeed automated)
> >> can be generated and pushed right after a commit window closes. Would
> >> that by any chance be possible ?  
> > 
> > No, those patches are hand-maid, but I can surely rebase it on the top of
> > your tree. Is your tree already merged at linux-next, or should I use some
> > other branch/tree for rebase?
> >   
> 
> linux-next merges hwmon-next. next-20190416 is missing one patch which touches
> Documentation/hwmon, but that should be easy to deal with.

Ok, did a rebase on the top of next-20190417. While re-reading the output
of the html files, I noticed a few minor issues on some tables and fixed.

Thanks,
Mauro