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Message-ID: <20150813172020.459bb599@xps.lwn.net>
Date:	Thu, 13 Aug 2015 17:20:20 -0600
From:	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
To:	Danilo Cesar Lemes de Paula <danilo.cesar@...labora.co.uk>
Cc:	linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
	Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...ll.ch>,
	Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@...asonboard.com>,
	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
	Stephan Mueller <smueller@...onox.de>,
	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	intel-gfx <intel-gfx@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
	dri-devel <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] Add support for Hyperlinks and Markup on kernel-doc

On Thu, 13 Aug 2015 20:09:35 -0300
Danilo Cesar Lemes de Paula <danilo.cesar@...labora.co.uk> wrote:

> Did you find time to take a look on this?

No.  Just when I thought things couldn't get crazier, my laptop died.  

	https://plus.google.com/+JonathanCorbet/posts/FBHp48dPb95

What spare time I had has been dedicated to recovering from that in time
to give my talk next week.

> I understand that there's some discussion behind the curtains regarding
> the markdown support, but the cross-reference-hyperlink patch is also in
> the same patch series. It doesn't change any text in the docbook unless
> there's really a cross-reference link to it. Different from the markdown
> support (when people start to use markdown to write docs it will be hard
> to go back), the cross-link stuff doesn't require/create any change to
> current documentation, it is pretty safe to use.
> 
> Would you mind to share your plans about this?

No behind-the-curtains discussions happening, or, let's say, if there
are, I've not been invited either.

I'd like to get back to the cross-reference stuff.  Last I tried, it
failed while building the media docs; have you been able to look at
that?  

Longer term, as you may know from the kernel summit discussions, I'd
really like to get rid of a lot of the XML gunk and put in something more
straightforward, be it based on Markdown or something else.  Doing that,
however, requires that I find the time to implement something that's
convincingly better.  It may happen soon, but I sure can't guarantee it.

Meanwhile, I think it would be a horrible mistake to delay useful work
because I have a gleam in my eye to do something different one of these
years, so I'll not do that.  I fully expect to merge all of the stuff
you've done, I just need to have a good look at it and test it out a
bit.  As I said before, I can't promise that for the 4.3 merge window,
but I'll try.

Apologies,

jon
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