Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 27 Apr 2020 14:53:10 +0200 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 08/29] docs: filesystems: convert configfs.txt to ReST |
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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:: <isonum.txt>" 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.
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