linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] docs: dev-tools: checkpatch: Add targets for checkpatch tags

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Message-ID: <878r0dam8q.fsf@meer.lwn.net>
Date: Mon, 13 May 2024 07:13:09 -0600
From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
To: Diederik de Haas <didi.debian@...ow.org>, Dwaipayan Ray
 <dwaipayanray1@...il.com>, Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@...il.com>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Diederik de Haas <didi.debian@...ow.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] docs: dev-tools: checkpatch: Add targets for checkpatch
 tags

Diederik de Haas <didi.debian@...ow.org> writes:

> Make the tags directly linkable by defining targets for them.
>
> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/r/8090211.0vHzs8tI1a@bagend/
> Signed-off-by: Diederik de Haas <didi.debian@...ow.org>
> ---
>  Documentation/dev-tools/checkpatch.rst | 216 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 216 insertions(+)

In addition to the other comments, I have to add: you have said what you
are doing but not *why*.  All of these labels clutter up the text; what
use will be made of them to justify that?

Thanks,

jon