linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 7/7] docs: put atomic*.txt and memory-barriers.txt into the core-api book

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Message-ID: <e3e32b99-e8a3-ba8d-5d84-3ed99af308c8@infradead.org>
Date:   Sat, 24 Sep 2022 20:48:01 -0700
From:   Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
To:     Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@...il.com>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@...mhuis.info>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 7/7] docs: put atomic*.txt and memory-barriers.txt into
 the core-api book



On 9/24/22 20:18, Bagas Sanjaya wrote:
> On 9/23/22 20:39, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
>>> Shouldn't warning like "This documentation isn't in RST format and included
>>> as literal block" be added?
>>
>> Why?  Who needs that information and what will they do with it?
> 
> At least readers will not be surprised with the anomaly...
> 
> But anyway, for consistency, I'd like to see these *.txt docs be converted
> to proper RST.

I'm pretty sure that Jonathan knows that those files' owner(s) want them
to remain in txt format.

-- 
~Randy