linux-kernel - [PATCH 04/23] acpi doc: convert acpi/osi.txt to rst format

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Message-Id: <20190328162721.26138-5-changbin.du@gmail.com>
Date:   Fri, 29 Mar 2019 00:27:02 +0800
From:   Changbin Du <changbin.du@...il.com>
To:     Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
Cc:     rjw@...ysocki.net, lenb@...nel.org, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        Changbin Du <changbin.du@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH 04/23] acpi doc: convert acpi/osi.txt to rst format

This converts the plain text documentation to reStructuredText format and
add it to Sphinx TOC tree. No essential content change.

Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@...il.com>
---
 Documentation/acpi/index.rst            |  1 +
 Documentation/acpi/{osi.txt => osi.rst} | 13 +++++++------
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
 rename Documentation/acpi/{osi.txt => osi.rst} (97%)

diff --git a/Documentation/acpi/index.rst b/Documentation/acpi/index.rst
index 624eb95e982b..1b5459e46533 100644
--- a/Documentation/acpi/index.rst
+++ b/Documentation/acpi/index.rst
@@ -7,3 +7,4 @@ Linux ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface)
 
    namespace
    enumeration
+   osi
diff --git a/Documentation/acpi/osi.txt b/Documentation/acpi/osi.rst
similarity index 97%
rename from Documentation/acpi/osi.txt
rename to Documentation/acpi/osi.rst
index 50cde0ceb9b0..47aaedd1013a 100644
--- a/Documentation/acpi/osi.txt
+++ b/Documentation/acpi/osi.rst
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
+==========================
 ACPI _OSI and _REV methods
---------------------------
+==========================
 
 An ACPI BIOS can use the "Operating System Interfaces" method (_OSI)
 to find out what the operating system supports. Eg. If BIOS
@@ -14,7 +15,7 @@ This document explains how and why the BIOS and Linux should use these methods.
 It also explains how and why they are widely misused.
 
 How to use _OSI
----------------
+===============
 
 Linux runs on two groups of machines -- those that are tested by the OEM
 to be compatible with Linux, and those that were never tested with Linux,
@@ -62,7 +63,7 @@ the string when that support is added to the kernel.
 That was easy.  Read on, to find out how to do it wrong.
 
 Before _OSI, there was _OS
---------------------------
+==========================
 
 ACPI 1.0 specified "_OS" as an
 "object that evaluates to a string that identifies the operating system."
@@ -96,7 +97,7 @@ That is the *only* viable strategy, as that is what modern Windows does,
 and so doing otherwise could steer the BIOS down an untested path.
 
 _OSI is born, and immediately misused
---------------------------------------
+=====================================
 
 With _OSI, the *BIOS* provides the string describing an interface,
 and asks the OS: "YES/NO, are you compatible with this interface?"
@@ -144,7 +145,7 @@ catastrophic failure resulting from the BIOS taking paths that
 were never validated under *any* OS.
 
 Do not use _REV
----------------
+===============
 
 Since _OSI("Linux") went away, some BIOS writers used _REV
 to support Linux and Windows differences in the same BIOS.
@@ -164,7 +165,7 @@ from mid-2015 onward.  The ACPI specification will also be updated
 to reflect that _REV is deprecated, and always returns 2.
 
 Apple Mac and _OSI("Darwin")
-----------------------------
+============================
 
 On Apple's Mac platforms, the ACPI BIOS invokes _OSI("Darwin")
 to determine if the machine is running Apple OSX.
-- 
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