linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 13/18] wait: wait.h: Get rid of a kernel-doc/Sphinx warnings

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Message-ID: <20180510165220.GA9757@andrea>
Date:   Thu, 10 May 2018 18:52:20 +0200
From:   Andrea Parri <andrea.parri@...rulasolutions.com>
To:     Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
Cc:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@...nel.org>,
        Linux Doc Mailing List <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...radead.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 13/18] wait: wait.h: Get rid of a kernel-doc/Sphinx
 warnings

On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 07:15:59AM -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> On Thu, 10 May 2018 14:23:35 +0200
> Andrea Parri <andrea.parri@...rulasolutions.com> wrote:
> 
> > only
> > remember that other people (including some developers running into the
> > "disadventure" of opening an RST doc. from their preferred text editor
> > and being brought to conclude:  "WTH!  I need to open a web browser, I
> > guess...") _use_ such doc. and _do care_ about it, and that what might
> > be an improvement for some people might look as "vandalizing" to others.
> 
> If you have an example of a place where use of a web browser has been
> made mandatory, please point it out.  Avoiding that was at the top of the
> list of explicit requirements.

That's all I need.


>Surely an extra colon is not going to
> force you to run screaming to the protective embrace of Firefox...?

Let me put it in these terms: I believe that that extra colon (or the
"diagram" keywork) is not going to improve/help my use of the doc. ;D

  Andrea


> 
> Thanks,
> 
> jon