linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] docs: x86: fix malformed table in boot protocol doc

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Message-ID: <84aa1a20-e507-4db0-a1f1-3a0b7342f2c3@infradead.org>
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2026 22:54:08 -0800
From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
To: Daisuke Iwasa <iwadjp@...il.com>, tglx@...utronix.de, mingo@...hat.com,
 bp@...en8.de, dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com, x86@...nel.org, hpa@...or.com,
 corbet@....net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] docs: x86: fix malformed table in boot protocol doc

Hi,

On 1/7/26 10:46 PM, Daisuke Iwasa wrote:
> Sphinx reports a malformed table warning in
> Documentation/arch/x86/boot.rst.
> 
> Rewrite the "Assigned boot loader IDs" table using a simple table format
> so the multi-line entries are properly represented.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Daisuke Iwasa <iwadjp@...il.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/arch/x86/boot.rst | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/arch/x86/boot.rst b/Documentation/arch/x86/boot.rst
> index 6d36ce86fd8e..18574f010d46 100644
> --- a/Documentation/arch/x86/boot.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/arch/x86/boot.rst
> @@ -433,7 +433,7 @@ Protocol:	2.00+
>  
>    Assigned boot loader IDs:
>  
> -	== =======================================
> +	==== =======================================
>  	0x0  LILO
>  	     (0x00 reserved for pre-2.00 bootloader)
>  	0x1  Loadlin
> @@ -456,7 +456,7 @@ Protocol:	2.00+
>  	     <http://sebastian-plotz.blogspot.de>
>  	0x12 OVMF UEFI virtualization stack
>  	0x13 barebox
> -	== =======================================
> +	==== =======================================
>  
>    Please contact <hpa@...or.com> if you need a bootloader ID value assigned.

That looks good, but this has already been fixed:
commit 5288176a5412
Author: Swaraj Gaikwad <swarajgaikwad1925@...il.com>
Date:   Wed Dec 10 09:28:14 2025 +0000
    x86/boot/Documentation: Fix htmldocs build warning due to malformed table in boot.rst

Be sure to use an up-to-date kernel source tree when making & posting patches.

thanks.
-- 
~Randy