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

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Message-ID: <CAC2o3DLJpMJDzQByJixPyLe47ajXXVFPRQBh3MaYPargrqS4tg@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Mon, 19 Apr 2021 11:33:05 +0800
From:   Fox Chen <foxhlchen@...il.com>
To:     Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
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 11:25 AM Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org> wrote:
>
> 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 ``.

Oh, That was a mistake,  They should've been wrapped with ``.
Thanks for pointing it out. I will go through the whole patch set and
fix this type of inconsistency in V3.


thanks,
fox