linux-kernel - Re: [RFC bpf-next v2 3/3] docs: Split filter.txt into separate documents.

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Message-ID: <20180807071405.58d38277@lwn.net>
Date:   Tue, 7 Aug 2018 07:14:05 -0600
From:   Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
To:     "Tobin C. Harding" <me@...in.cc>
Cc:     Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC bpf-next v2 3/3] docs: Split filter.txt into separate
 documents.

On Tue, 7 Aug 2018 12:48:44 +1000
"Tobin C. Harding" <me@...in.cc> wrote:

> How about these steps:
> 
> 	1. start with foo.txt
> 	2. do typo and grammar fixes (any number of patches).
> 	3. rename to foo.rst, do whitespace changes, code snippet
> 	   indentation, heading adornments, update references to this file.
> 	   (single patch).
> 	4. Fix up references in the file text to use RST (i.e :ref: blah)
> 	5. Fix up RST markers (backticks etc). (any number of patches)

That can certainly work; just don't call it foo.rst until it actually is a
valid RST file.

And, of course, go easy with the later steps and try to avoid the
temptation to mark up everything; we really want to preserve the
readability of the plain-text files.

Thanks for doing this work!

jon