linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 01/12] docs: path-lookup: update follow

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Message-ID: <20210419032513.GW2531743@casper.infradead.org>
Date:   Mon, 19 Apr 2021 04:25:13 +0100
From:   Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
To:     Fox Chen <foxhlchen@...il.com>
Cc:     Neil Brown <neilb@...e.de>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        vegard.nossum@...cle.com, Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        rdunlap@...radead.org, grandmaster@...klimov.de,
        linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 01/12] docs: path-lookup: update follow_managed() part

On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 10:33:00AM +0800, Fox Chen wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 10:17 AM Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Mar 16, 2021 at 01:47:16PM +0800, Fox Chen wrote:
> > > -In the absence of symbolic links, ``walk_component()`` creates a new
> > > +As the last step of ``walk_component()``, ``step_into()`` will be called either
> >
> > You can drop ``..`` from around function named which are followed with
> > ().  d74b0d31ddde ("Docs: An initial automarkup extension for sphinx")
> > marks them up automatically.
> >
> 
> Got it, thanks for letting me know. But I will still use them in this
> patch series to keep consistency with the remaining parts of the
> document.

Well, you weren't.  For example:

+As the last step of ``walk_component()``, ``step_into()`` will be called either
+directly from walk_component() or from handle_dots().  It calls
+``handle_mount()``, to check and handle mount points, in which a new

Neither of the functions on the second line were using ``.