linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 5/5] docs: networking: device_drivers: fix bad usage of UTF-8 chars

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Message-ID: <8735utdt6z.fsf@meer.lwn.net>
Date:   Tue, 11 May 2021 12:24:52 -0600
From:   Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
To:     Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@...nel.org>
Cc:     Linux Doc Mailing List <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@...el.com>,
        Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@...el.com>,
        intel-wired-lan@...ts.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] docs: networking: device_drivers: fix bad usage of
 UTF-8 chars

Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch> writes:

>> -monitoring tools such as ifstat or sar –n DEV [interval] [number of samples]
>> +monitoring tools such as `ifstat` or `sar -n DEV [interval] [number of samples]`
>
> ...
>
>>  For example: min_rate 1Gbit 3Gbit: Verify bandwidth limit using network
>> -monitoring tools such as ifstat or sar –n DEV [interval] [number of samples]
>> +monitoring tools such as ``ifstat`` or ``sar -n DEV [interval] [number of samples]``
>
> Is there a difference between ` and `` ? Does it make sense to be
> consistent?

This is `just weird quotes`
This is ``literal text`` set in monospace in processed output.

There is a certain tension between those who want to see liberal use of
literal-text markup, and those who would rather have less markup in the
text overall; certainly, it's better not to go totally nuts with it.

jon