netdev - Re: [PATCH bpf-next] bpftool: work-around rst2man conversion bug

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Message-ID: <CAADnVQ+PTVQvoRQym8UZYCUQS9tTrB4B3SOWsBtNS943rn7rMA@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 18 Dec 2019 17:04:59 -0800
From:   Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com>
To:     Yonghong Song <yhs@...com>
Cc:     Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@...com>,
        "bpf@...r.kernel.org" <bpf@...r.kernel.org>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...com>,
        "daniel@...earbox.net" <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        "andrii.nakryiko@...il.com" <andrii.nakryiko@...il.com>,
        Kernel Team <Kernel-team@...com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf-next] bpftool: work-around rst2man conversion bug

On Wed, Dec 18, 2019 at 4:42 PM Yonghong Song <yhs@...com> wrote:
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> On 12/18/19 3:35 PM, Yonghong Song wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 12/18/19 2:17 PM, Andrii Nakryiko wrote:
> >> Work-around what appears to be a bug in rst2man convertion tool, used to
> >> create man pages out of reStructureText-formatted documents. If text line
> >> starts with dot, rst2man will put it in resulting man file verbatim. This
> >> seems to cause man tool to interpret it as a directive/command (e.g., `.bs`), and
> >> subsequently not render entire line because it's unrecognized one.
> >>
> >> Enclose '.xxx' words in extra formatting to work around.
> >>
> >> Fixes: cb21ac588546 ("bpftool: Add gen subcommand manpage")
> >> Reported-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>
> >> Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@...com>
>
> Acked-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@...com

Applied. Thanks