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

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Date:	Wed, 17 Feb 2016 23:29:41 +0100
From:	Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...ll.ch>
To:	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
Cc:	Keith Packard <keithp@...thp.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
	Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@...el.com>
Subject: Re: Kernel docs: muddying the waters a bit

On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 11:14 PM, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net> wrote:
> On Sun, 14 Feb 2016 13:27:04 +0100
> Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...ll.ch> wrote:
>
>> One concern/open I have for pro/cons are the hyperlinks from kerneldoc
>> comments. Currently we have the postproc hack, iirc Jani's patches
>> generated links native when extracting the kerneldoc. What's the
>> solution with spinx?
>
> So I've been trying to figure out what this refers to.  Is this the
> cross-reference links within the document?  When I did my sphinx hack it
> used a technique that, shall we say, strongly resembles what Jani's
> patches did.  One difference is that Sphinx has the concept of
> "functions" built into it, so I use function references for those.

That's what I meant. As long as I can type in stuff like func(),
&struct and similar and get a link for it automatically (plus anywhere
else in the templated stuff for function headers) I'm really happy.
-Daniel
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Daniel Vetter
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