Re: [PATCH v2 08/29] docs: filesystems: convert configfs.txt to ReST

[Jonathan Corbet]

On Tue, 21 Apr 2020 19:23:37 +0200
Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 10:02:23AM -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 06:55:34PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:  
> > > NAK, this makes the document significantly harder to read.  
> > 
> > Really?  It reads more easily to me in the new format.  Enclosing
> > section headers in [] is really weird.  
> 
> It wasn't entirely uncommon, but that's not really the point.  The
> Problem is all the weird ".." or "::" annotations that really kill
> the flow, or things like "|copy|" that have no reason to exist.

This sounds sort of like "my markup is good, yours is bad", honestly.  If
somebody were trying to add bracketed headings to a new document, I
suspect we'd get similar complaints.

The markup can certainly be toned down.  If you don't like |copy|, it can
just as easily remain "(c)" or become Â, or just go away entirely.  That
would get rid of the ".. include:: <isonum.txt>" line too.  I would
happily make a rule that we don't bother with markup like |copy|
anywhere in the kernel docs.

The SPDX line is supposed to exist in all files, of course.

If Mauro does that, can you live with "::" to mark a literal block?  It
doesn't seem like a whole lot of noise...?

Thanks,

jon