linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/10] Documentation/Sphinx

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Date:	Tue, 31 May 2016 12:16:25 +0200
From:	Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@...marit.de>
To:	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@....samsung.com>
Cc:	Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@...el.com>,
	Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...ll.ch>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...retlab.ca>,
	Dan Allen <dan@...ndevise.io>,
	Russel Winder <russel@...der.org.uk>,
	Keith Packard <keithp@...thp.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
	Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@...all.nl>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/10] Documentation/Sphinx


Am 30.05.2016 um 23:23 schrieb Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@....samsung.com>:

> Em Mon, 30 May 2016 23:05:34 +0300
> Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@...el.com> escreveu:
> 
>>> I worry a little bit in that reST will be only one more toolchain 
>>> beside DocBook .. in the long term, kernel's documentation 
>>> should get rid of all the DocBook artifacts and for this a more
>>> comprehensive solution is needed.  
>> 
>> We agree on the end goal, eradicate DocBook. I must say that in my
>> experiments, apart from the media docs, almost everything converts
>> surprisingly nicely or IMO "good enough" with just the tmplcvt script in
>> this series.
> 
> With regards to media, my plan is to merge create a topic branch based
> on Kernel 4.7-rc1 at:
> 	https://git.linuxtv.org/media_tree.git/
> 
> As none of the Jani's patches seem to affect the media API docs, it
> seems I don't need to merge back from Jon's -next branch.
> 
> There, I intend to add Markus patches with the conversion from the
> DocBook to rst, plus the flat-table extension logic.
> 
> Then, I'll work to manually fix what's needed and I'll add the 
> automation scripting logic that we have at the DocBook Makefile
> to work with the new media rst files.
> 
> Lastly, once the job's done, I'll drop Documentation/DocBook/media.
> 
> Markus,
> 
> With that regards, could you please send the patches to me?

Yes. What is your timeline ... is it OK if I send you a patch in the 
next two weeks? ... first I wan't to finish my other work / I'am just
back from holiday .. a lot of work to do :-o

--Markus--

> 
> Thanks,
> Mauro