From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
To: Peter Lister <peter@bikeshed.quignogs.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>,
Linux Doc Mailing List <linux-doc@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>,
linux-usb@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 08/29] docs: filesystems: convert configfs.txt to ReST
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2020 12:01:13 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200424120113.02cc4b81@lwn.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <894438a6-cd91-1728-a313-4bf4f8d5074d@bikeshed.quignogs.org.uk>
On Fri, 24 Apr 2020 18:28:54 +0100
Peter Lister <peter@bikeshed.quignogs.org.uk> wrote:
> On 21/04/2020 18:23, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > It wasn't entirely uncommon, but that's not really the point. The
> > Problem is all the weird ".." or "::" annotations that really kill
> > the flow, or things like "|copy|" that have no reason to exist.
>
> You aren't supposed to read REST documentation files - as opposed to
> kerneldoc comments in the C source - any more than you read HTML.
I am sorry, but that is not the approach we take at all. RST was chosen
*because* it is readable plain text, and the readability of the source
docs is of high importance; that's not going to change.
Thanks,
jon
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-04-24 18:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-21 16:54 [PATCH v2 00/29] fs: convert remaining docs to ReST file format Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2020-04-21 16:54 ` [PATCH v2 01/29] docs: filesystems: convert caching/object.txt to ReST Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2020-04-21 16:54 ` [PATCH v2 02/29] docs: filesystems: convert caching/fscache.txt to ReST format Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2020-04-21 16:54 ` [PATCH v2 03/29] docs: filesystems: caching/netfs-api.txt: convert it to ReST Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2020-04-21 16:54 ` [PATCH v2 04/29] docs: filesystems: caching/operations.txt: " Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2020-04-21 16:54 ` [PATCH v2 05/29] docs: filesystems: caching/cachefiles.txt: convert " Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2020-04-21 16:54 ` [PATCH v2 06/29] docs: filesystems: caching/backend-api.txt: convert it " Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2020-04-21 16:54 ` [PATCH v2 07/29] docs: filesystems: convert cifs/cifsroot.txt " Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2020-04-21 16:54 ` [PATCH v2 08/29] docs: filesystems: convert configfs.txt " Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2020-04-21 16:55 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-04-21 17:02 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-04-21 17:23 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-04-21 22:39 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2020-04-21 22:53 ` Jonathan Corbet
2020-04-27 12:53 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-04-27 21:08 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2020-04-24 17:28 ` Peter Lister
2020-04-24 18:01 ` Jonathan Corbet [this message]
2020-04-27 12:51 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-04-22 6:02 ` Felipe Balbi
2020-04-24 17:34 ` Peter Lister
2020-04-27 21:02 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2020-04-21 16:54 ` [PATCH v2 09/29] docs: filesystems: convert automount-support.txt " Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2020-04-21 16:54 ` [PATCH v2 10/29] docs: filesystems: convert coda.txt " Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2020-04-21 16:54 ` [PATCH v2 11/29] docs: filesystems: convert devpts.txt " Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2020-04-21 16:54 ` [PATCH v2 12/29] docs: filesystems: convert dnotify.txt " Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2020-04-21 16:54 ` [PATCH v2 13/29] docs: filesystems: convert fiemap.txt " Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2020-04-21 16:54 ` [PATCH v2 14/29] docs: filesystems: convert files.txt " Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2020-04-21 16:54 ` [PATCH v2 15/29] docs: filesystems: convert fuse-io.txt " Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2020-04-21 16:54 ` [PATCH v2 16/29] docs: filesystems: convert locks.txt " Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2020-04-21 16:54 ` [PATCH v2 17/29] docs: filesystems: convert mandatory-locking.txt " Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2020-04-21 16:54 ` [PATCH v2 18/29] docs: filesystems: convert mount_api.txt " Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2020-04-21 16:54 ` [PATCH v2 19/29] docs: filesystems: convert quota.txt " Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2020-04-21 16:54 ` [PATCH v2 20/29] docs: filesystems: convert seq_file.txt " Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2020-04-21 16:54 ` [PATCH v2 21/29] docs: filesystems: convert sharedsubtree.txt " Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2020-04-21 16:54 ` [PATCH v2 22/29] docs: filesystems: split spufs.txt into 3 separate files Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2020-04-21 16:54 ` [PATCH v2 23/29] docs: filesystems: convert spufs/spu_create.txt to ReST Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2020-04-21 16:54 ` [PATCH v2 24/29] docs: filesystems: convert spufs/spufs.txt " Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2020-04-21 16:54 ` [PATCH v2 25/29] docs: filesystems: convert spufs/spu_run.txt " Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2020-04-21 16:54 ` [PATCH v2 26/29] docs: filesystems: convert sysfs-pci.txt " Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2020-04-21 16:54 ` [PATCH v2 27/29] docs: filesystems: convert sysfs-tagging.txt " Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2020-04-21 16:54 ` [PATCH v2 28/29] docs: filesystems: convert xfs-delayed-logging-design.txt " Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2020-04-21 16:54 ` [PATCH v2 29/29] docs: filesystems: convert xfs-self-describing-metadata.txt " Mauro Carvalho Chehab
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