From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
To: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>,
Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>,
Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>,
Linux Doc Mailing List <linux-doc@vger.kernel.org>,
Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>,
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Andrea Parri <andrea.parri@amarulasolutions.com>,
Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
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Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>,
Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>,
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
Jade Alglave <j.alglave@ucl.ac.uk>,
Luc Maranget <luc.maranget@inria.fr>,
Daniel Lustig <dlustig@nvidia.com>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>, Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>,
SeongJae Park <sj38.park@gmail.com>,
linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tools: memory-model: add it to the Documentation body
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2019 13:25:17 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190731202517.GF5913@linux.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cb9785b7-ed43-b91a-7392-e50216bd5771@gmail.com>
On Thu, Aug 01, 2019 at 12:19:25AM +0900, Akira Yokosawa wrote:
> On Wed, 31 Jul 2019 09:52:05 -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
> > On Tue, 30 Jul 2019, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> >
> >> Em Tue, 30 Jul 2019 18:17:01 -0400
> >> Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org> escreveu:
> >
> >>>>> (4) I would argue that every occurence of
> >>>>> A ->(some dependency) B should be replaced with fixed size font in the HTML
> >>>>> results.
> >>>>
> >>>> Just place those with ``A -> (some dependency)``. This will make them use
> >>>> a fixed size font.
> >>>
> >>> Ok, understood all these. I guess my point was all of these will need to be
> >>> done to make this document useful from a ReST conversion standpoint. Until
> >>> then it is probably just better off being plain text - since there are so
> >>> many of those ``A -> (dep) B`` things.
> >
> >> On a very quick look, it seems that, if we replace:
> >>
> >> (\S+\s->\S*\s\w+)
> >>
> >> by:
> >> ``\1``
> >>
> >>
> >> On an editor that would allow to manually replace the regex (like kate),
> >> most of those can be get.
> >>
> >> See patch enclosed.
> >
> > Some time ago I considered the problem of converting this file to ReST
> > format. But I gave up on the idea, because the necessary changes were
> > so widespread and the resulting text file would not be easily readable.
> >
> > Replacing things of the form "A ->dep B" just scratches the surface.
> > That document teems with variable names, formulas, code extracts, and
> > other things which would all need to be rendered in a different font
> > style. The density of the markup required to do this would be
> > phenomenally high.
> >
> > In my opinion it simply was not worthwhile.
>
> +1 on keeping this and the other .txt files of LKMM intact.
Looks like a pretty clear consensus thus far. Any objections to keeping
these .txt for the time being?
Thanx, Paul
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-07-31 20:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 74+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-07-26 12:51 [PATCH v2 00/26] ReST conversion of text files without .txt extension Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2019-07-26 12:51 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2019-07-26 12:51 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2019-07-26 12:51 ` [OpenRISC] " Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2019-07-26 12:51 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2019-07-26 12:51 ` [PATCH v2 01/26] docs: power: add it to to the main documentation index Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2019-07-31 19:03 ` Jonathan Corbet
2019-07-31 19:16 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2019-07-31 19:34 ` Jonathan Corbet
2019-07-31 19:58 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2019-07-31 20:02 ` Jonathan Corbet
2019-07-26 12:51 ` [PATCH v2 02/26] docs: thermal: add it to the driver API Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2019-07-26 12:51 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2019-07-26 12:51 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2019-07-26 12:51 ` [PATCH v2 03/26] docs: powerpc: convert docs to ReST and rename to *.rst Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2019-07-26 12:51 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2019-07-26 12:51 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2019-07-26 12:51 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2019-07-26 12:51 ` [PATCH v2 04/26] docs: ubifs-authentication.md: convert to ReST Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2019-07-26 12:51 ` [PATCH v2 05/26] docs: writing-schema.md: convert from markdown " Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2019-07-26 12:51 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2019-07-26 12:51 ` [PATCH v2 06/26] docs: i2c: convert to ReST and add to driver-api bookset Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2019-07-26 12:51 ` [PATCH v2 07/26] docs: w1: convert to ReST and add to the kAPI group of docs Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2019-07-26 12:51 ` [PATCH v2 08/26] spi: docs: convert to ReST and add it to the kABI bookset Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2019-07-26 12:51 ` [PATCH v2 09/26] docs: ipmb: place it at driver-api and convert to ReST Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2019-07-26 12:51 ` [PATCH v2 10/26] docs: packing: move it to core-api book and adjust markups Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2019-07-26 12:51 ` [PATCH v2 11/26] docs: admin-guide: add auxdisplay files to it after conversion to ReST Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2019-07-26 12:51 ` [PATCH v2 12/26] docs: README.buddha: convert to ReST and add to m68k book Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2019-07-26 12:51 ` [PATCH v2 13/26] docs: parisc: convert to ReST and add to documentation body Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2019-07-26 12:51 ` [PATCH v2 14/26] docs: openrisc: " Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2019-07-26 12:51 ` [OpenRISC] " Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2019-07-26 12:51 ` [PATCH v2 15/26] docs: isdn: convert to ReST and add to kAPI bookset Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2019-07-26 12:51 ` [PATCH v2 16/26] docs: fs: cifs: convert to ReST and add to admin-guide book Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2019-07-26 12:51 ` [PATCH v2 17/26] docs: fs: convert docs without extension to ReST Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2019-07-26 12:51 ` [PATCH v2 18/26] docs: fs: convert porting " Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2019-07-26 12:51 ` [PATCH v2 19/26] docs: index.rst: don't use genindex for pdf output Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2019-07-26 12:51 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2019-07-26 12:51 ` [PATCH v2 20/26] docs: wimax: convert to ReST and add to admin-guide Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2019-07-26 12:51 ` [PATCH v2 21/26] docs: mips: add to the documentation body as ReST Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2019-07-26 12:51 ` [PATCH v2 22/26] docs: hwmon: pxe1610: convert to ReST format and add to the index Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2019-07-26 12:51 ` [PATCH v2 23/26] docs: nios2: add it to the main Documentation body Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2019-07-26 12:51 ` [PATCH v2 24/26] docs: net: convert two README files to ReST format Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2019-07-26 13:05 ` [PATCH v2 00/26] ReST conversion of text files without .txt extension Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2019-07-26 13:05 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2019-07-26 13:05 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2019-07-26 13:05 ` [OpenRISC] " Mauro Carvalho Chehab
[not found] ` <8444797277eea7be474f40625bb190775a9cee33.1564145354.git.mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
[not found] ` <20190726162002.GA146401@google.com>
[not found] ` <20190726140028.38abb5fa@coco.lan>
2019-07-26 17:55 ` [PATCH v2 25/26] docs: rcu: convert some articles from html to ReST Joel Fernandes
2019-07-26 18:45 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2019-07-26 18:02 ` Joel Fernandes
2019-07-26 19:01 ` [PATCH] tools: memory-model: add it to the Documentation body Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2019-07-27 14:14 ` Joel Fernandes
2019-07-27 15:37 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2019-07-30 22:17 ` Joel Fernandes
2019-07-30 22:57 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2019-07-31 13:52 ` Alan Stern
2019-07-31 13:52 ` Alan Stern
2019-07-31 15:19 ` Akira Yokosawa
2019-07-31 20:25 ` Paul E. McKenney [this message]
2019-08-30 11:32 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-09-01 13:35 ` Paul E. McKenney
2019-07-26 19:14 ` [PATCH v2 25/26] docs: rcu: convert some articles from html to ReST Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2019-07-30 22:06 ` Joel Fernandes
2019-07-30 21:22 ` Paul E. McKenney
2019-07-30 21:50 ` Joel Fernandes
2019-07-30 22:00 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2019-07-30 22:21 ` Joel Fernandes
2019-07-30 23:00 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2019-07-30 23:15 ` Joel Fernandes
2019-07-30 21:50 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2019-07-30 23:37 ` Paul E. McKenney
2019-07-31 0:04 ` Paul E. McKenney
2019-07-31 0:47 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2019-07-31 1:06 ` Paul E. McKenney
2019-07-31 1:33 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
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