linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] tools: memory-model: add it to the Documentation body

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Message-ID: <cb9785b7-ed43-b91a-7392-e50216bd5771@gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 1 Aug 2019 00:19:25 +0900
From:   Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@...il.com>
To:     Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@...nel.org>
Cc:     Joel Fernandes <joel@...lfernandes.org>,
        Linux Doc Mailing List <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...radead.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Andrea Parri <andrea.parri@...rulasolutions.com>,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@...il.com>,
        Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>,
        David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
        Jade Alglave <j.alglave@....ac.uk>,
        Luc Maranget <luc.maranget@...ia.fr>,
        "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Daniel Lustig <dlustig@...dia.com>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...pe.ca>,
        SeongJae Park <sj38.park@...il.com>, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tools: memory-model: add it to the Documentation body

On Wed, 31 Jul 2019 09:52:05 -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Jul 2019, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> 
>> Em Tue, 30 Jul 2019 18:17:01 -0400
>> Joel Fernandes <joel@...lfernandes.org> escreveu:
> 
>>>>> (4) I would argue that every occurence of
>>>>> A ->(some dependency) B should be replaced with fixed size font in the HTML
>>>>> results.  
>>>>
>>>> Just place those with ``A -> (some dependency)``. This will make them use
>>>> a fixed size font.  
>>>
>>> Ok, understood all these. I guess my point was all of these will need to be
>>> done to make this document useful from a ReST conversion standpoint. Until
>>> then it is probably just better off being plain text - since there are so
>>> many of those ``A -> (dep) B`` things.
> 
>> On a very quick look, it seems that, if we replace:
>>
>> 	(\S+\s->\S*\s\w+)
>>
>> by:
>> 	``\1``
>>
>>
>> On an editor that would allow to manually replace the regex (like kate),
>> most of those can be get.
>>
>> See patch enclosed.
> 
> Some time ago I considered the problem of converting this file to ReST 
> format.  But I gave up on the idea, because the necessary changes were 
> so widespread and the resulting text file would not be easily readable.
> 
> Replacing things of the form "A ->dep B" just scratches the surface.  
> That document teems with variable names, formulas, code extracts, and
> other things which would all need to be rendered in a different font
> style.  The density of the markup required to do this would be
> phenomenally high.
> 
> In my opinion it simply was not worthwhile.

+1 on keeping this and the other .txt files of LKMM intact.

        Thanks, Akira

> 
> Alan Stern
>