From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.7 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20C83C55186 for ; Fri, 24 Apr 2020 18:01:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D08E20774 for ; Fri, 24 Apr 2020 18:01:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1728594AbgDXSBQ (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Apr 2020 14:01:16 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:48838 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726908AbgDXSBQ (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Apr 2020 14:01:16 -0400 Received: from ms.lwn.net (ms.lwn.net [IPv6:2600:3c01:e000:3a1::42]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id EFAEDC09B048; Fri, 24 Apr 2020 11:01:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lwn.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by ms.lwn.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id E039A738; Fri, 24 Apr 2020 18:01:14 +0000 (UTC) Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2020 12:01:13 -0600 From: Jonathan Corbet To: Peter Lister Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Matthew Wilcox , Mauro Carvalho Chehab , Linux Doc Mailing List , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Greg Kroah-Hartman , Joel Becker , linux-usb@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 08/29] docs: filesystems: convert configfs.txt to ReST Message-ID: <20200424120113.02cc4b81@lwn.net> In-Reply-To: <894438a6-cd91-1728-a313-4bf4f8d5074d@bikeshed.quignogs.org.uk> References: <278a9befc98b49ea866c9b687d070c70cde20628.1587487612.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> <20200421165534.GA16511@lst.de> <20200421170223.GP5820@bombadil.infradead.org> <20200421172337.GA18305@lst.de> <894438a6-cd91-1728-a313-4bf4f8d5074d@bikeshed.quignogs.org.uk> Organization: LWN.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 24 Apr 2020 18:28:54 +0100 Peter Lister 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