linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 12/14] doc-rst: add ABI documentation to the admin-guide book

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Date:   Fri, 14 Jun 2019 16:10:31 +0200
From:   Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@...marit.de>
To:     Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@...ux.intel.com>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@...nel.org>,
        Linux Doc Mailing List <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...pensource.com>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...radead.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 12/14] doc-rst: add ABI documentation to the admin-guide
 book


Am 14.06.19 um 15:42 schrieb Jani Nikula:
> On Thu, 13 Jun 2019, Mauro Carvalho Chehab<mchehab+samsung@...nel.org>  wrote:
>> From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab<mchehab@...pensource.com>
>>
>> As we don't want a generic Sphinx extension to execute commands,
>> change the one proposed to Markus to call the abi_book.pl
>> script.
>>
>> Use a script to parse the Documentation/ABI directory and output
>> it at the admin-guide.
> We had a legacy kernel-doc perl script so we used that instead of
> rewriting it in python. Just to keep it bug-for-bug compatible with the
> past. That was the only reason.
> 
> I see absolutely zero reason to add a new perl monstrosity with a python
> extension to call it. All of this could be better done in python,
> directly.
> 
> Please don't complicate the documentation build. I know you know we all
> worked hard to take apart the old DocBook Rube Goldberg machine to
> replace it with Sphinx. Please don't turn the Sphinx build to another
> complicated mess.
> 
> My strong preferences are, in this order:
> 
> 1) Convert the ABI documentation to reStructuredText
> 
> 2) Have the python extension read the ABI files directly, without an
>     extra pipeline.
> 

I agree with Jani. No matter how the decision ends, since I can't help here, I'd 
rather not show up in the copyright.

   -- Markus --