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From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
To: Stephen Kitt <steve@sk2.org>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] docs: format kernel-parameters -- as code
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2019 09:10:21 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190628091021.457d0301@lwn.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190627135938.3722-1-steve@sk2.org>

On Thu, 27 Jun 2019 15:59:38 +0200
Stephen Kitt <steve@sk2.org> wrote:

> The current ReStructuredText formatting results in "--", used to
> indicate the end of the kernel command-line parameters, appearing as
> an en-dash instead of two hyphens; this patch formats them as code,
> "``--``", as done elsewhere in the documentation.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Kitt <steve@sk2.org>

A worthy fix, I've applied it.  This seems like the sort of annoyance that
will bite us over and over, though.  We might want to find a more
comprehensive way to turn this behavior off.

Thanks,

jon

  reply	other threads:[~2019-06-28 15:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-06-27 13:59 [PATCH] docs: format kernel-parameters -- as code Stephen Kitt
2019-06-28 15:10 ` Jonathan Corbet [this message]
2019-06-28 18:38   ` Stephen Kitt
2019-06-28 18:48     ` Jonathan Corbet
2019-06-28 20:47       ` Randy Dunlap
2019-06-28 20:51       ` Stephen Kitt

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