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

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Message-ID: <20200427125132.GB31904@lst.de>
Date:   Mon, 27 Apr 2020 14:51:32 +0200
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:     Peter Lister <peter@...eshed.quignogs.org.uk>
Cc:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        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 Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 06:28:54PM +0100, Peter Lister wrote:
> On 21/04/2020 18:23, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>> 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.
>
> You aren't supposed to read REST documentation files - as opposed to 
> kerneldoc comments in the C source - any more than you read HTML.

And that is the whole problem.  Optimizing for reading in a browser might
be an okay tradeoff for end-user documentation.  But it is absolutely
the wrong thing for internal API documentation where you want to jump
to them by opening them in the same text editor.