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Message-ID: <6f554454-ab8c-92be-a2b5-543e609dc351@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2018 21:28:12 +0200
From: Igor Stoppa <igor.stoppa@...il.com>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
 Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: Mimi Zohar <zohar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>, Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
 Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>, James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
 Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>, kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com,
 linux-integrity@...r.kernel.org, linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org,
 igor.stoppa@...wei.com, Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
 Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, Laura Abbott <labbott@...hat.com>,
 Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>, Mike Rapoport
 <rppt@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/17] prmem: documentation



On 26/10/2018 11:20, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 11:26:09AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>> Jon,
>>
>> So the below document is a prime example for why I think RST sucks. As a
>> text document readability is greatly diminished by all the markup
>> nonsense.
>>
>> This stuff should not become write-only content like html and other
>> gunk. The actual text file is still the primary means of reading this.
> 
> I think Igor neglected to read doc-guide/sphinx.rst:

Guilty as charged :-/

> Specific guidelines for the kernel documentation
> ------------------------------------------------
> 
> Here are some specific guidelines for the kernel documentation:
> 
> * Please don't go overboard with reStructuredText markup. Keep it
>    simple. For the most part the documentation should be plain text with
>    just enough consistency in formatting that it can be converted to
>    other formats.

> I agree that it's overly marked up.

I'll fix it

--
igor



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