[PATCH 10/17] prmem: documentation

Igor Stoppa igor.stoppa at gmail.com
Mon Oct 29 19:28:12 UTC 2018



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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