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

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Message-ID: <20200427230845.6716e945@coco.lan>
Date:   Mon, 27 Apr 2020 23:08:45 +0200
From:   Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@...nel.org>
To:     Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
Cc:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        Linux Doc Mailing List <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        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

Em Tue, 21 Apr 2020 16:53:17 -0600
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net> escreveu:

> On Tue, 21 Apr 2020 19:23:37 +0200
> Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de> 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.  
> 
> This sounds sort of like "my markup is good, yours is bad", honestly.  If
> somebody were trying to add bracketed headings to a new document, I
> suspect we'd get similar complaints.
> 
> The markup can certainly be toned down.  If you don't like |copy|, it can
> just as easily remain "(c)" or become ©, or just go away entirely.  That
> would get rid of the ".. include:: <isonum.txt>" line too.  I would
> happily make a rule that we don't bother with markup like |copy|
> anywhere in the kernel docs.
> 
> The SPDX line is supposed to exist in all files, of course.
> 
> If Mauro does that, can you live with "::" to mark a literal block?  It
> doesn't seem like a whole lot of noise...?

Yeah, I can remove most of the markups, preserving the "::".

Will send a new patchset in a few.

Thanks,
Mauro