linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 08/29] docs: filesystems: convert configfs.txt to ReST

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Date:   Tue, 21 Apr 2020 18:39:15 -0400
From:   "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Cc:     Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@...nel.org>,
        Linux Doc Mailing List <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Joel Becker <jlbec@...lplan.org>, linux-usb@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 08/29] docs: filesystems: convert configfs.txt to ReST

On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 07:23:37PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 10:02:23AM -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 06:55:34PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > > NAK, this makes the document significantly harder to read.
> > 
> > Really?  It reads more easily to me in the new format.  Enclosing
> > section headers in [] is really weird.
> 
> It wasn't entirely uncommon, but that's not really the point.  The
> Problem is all the weird ".." or "::" annotations that really kill
> the flow, or things like "|copy|" that have no reason to exist.

FWIW, I consider the rst transformations to be an improvement, even
when reading them as a text mode.

				- Ted