Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 15 Mar 2016 09:58:19 -0700 | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL] RCU changes for v4.6 | From | Linus Torvalds <> |
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On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 8:33 AM, Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote: > > Good point! I will send a pull of the documentation commits that do not > involve Documentation/RCU/Design.
Note that I have no objections what-so-ever with the html in the Design doc directory: I think using html and svg's to do the boxes and things is fine. Using html and svg's because you can do better graphics for showing real technical relationships is absolutely *fine*.
What I object to is "cute". We had a cartoonish jpeg at some point (maybe it's still there, I didn't check), and now the quizzes with the html filtering and checking in both versions etc.
I think "cute" may well be fine for doing presentations etc.
But I don't think it's something we want in the kernel sources, and it absolutely isn't when it adds big files (whether they be duplicate info or jpeg's) or special non-standard file formats.
It ends up being actively detrimental to disseminating the information, because of the conversion scripts, or because it's just distracting.
Linus
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