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=-2.3 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,USER_AGENT_SANE_1 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 09A41C55199 for ; Mon, 27 Apr 2020 12:53:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC11120663 for ; Mon, 27 Apr 2020 12:53:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1727946AbgD0MxO (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Apr 2020 08:53:14 -0400 Received: from verein.lst.de ([213.95.11.211]:47815 "EHLO verein.lst.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1727029AbgD0MxN (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Apr 2020 08:53:13 -0400 Received: by verein.lst.de (Postfix, from userid 2407) id 49F0A68CF0; Mon, 27 Apr 2020 14:53:11 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2020 14:53:10 +0200 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Jonathan Corbet 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: <20200427125310.GC31904@lst.de> References: <278a9befc98b49ea866c9b687d070c70cde20628.1587487612.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> <20200421165534.GA16511@lst.de> <20200421170223.GP5820@bombadil.infradead.org> <20200421172337.GA18305@lst.de> <20200421165317.277f52ee@lwn.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20200421165317.277f52ee@lwn.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 04:53:17PM -0600, Jonathan Corbet 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. > > This sounds sort of like "my markup is good, yours is bad", honestly. If > somebody were trying to add bracketed headings to a new document, I > suspect we'd get similar complaints. Not really. It is a "less markup is better". > The markup can certainly be toned down. If you don't like |copy|, it can > just as easily remain "(c)" or become ©, or just go away entirely. That > would get rid of the ".. include:: " line too. I would > happily make a rule that we don't bother with markup like |copy| > anywhere in the kernel docs. That is a good start. > The SPDX line is supposed to exist in all files, of course. No problem with that. I'll happily take a SPDX patch any time. > If Mauro does that, can you live with "::" to mark a literal block? It > doesn't seem like a whole lot of noise...? That is in fact one of my favourite pet pevees with the whole RST thing.