linux-kernel - Re: Kernel docs: muddying the waters a bit

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Message-ID: <20160216125901.149c7849@lwn.net>
Date:	Tue, 16 Feb 2016 12:59:01 -0700
From:	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
To:	Keith Packard <keithp@...thp.com>
Cc:	Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@...el.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
	Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...ll.ch>
Subject: Re: Kernel docs: muddying the waters a bit

On Tue, 16 Feb 2016 11:13:29 -0800
Keith Packard <keithp@...thp.com> wrote:

> 	https://github.com/HolgerPeters/sphinxcontrib-docbook
> 
> which appears to provide docbook output for sphinx, but I haven't tested
> this at all.

Yup, that's the one I found, the one that says "Very much work in
progress".  It looks like that work stopped almost a year ago.

> Of course, docbook is just a means to an end -- the question should
> probably be what final output formats are actually required and whether
> the tools generate those in a reasonable fashion.

Indeed, I doubt many people want the DocBook itself.

jon