From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
To: Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz>, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz>, Michael Kerrisk <mtk@man7.org>,
Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>,
man-pages@man7.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] Documentation: Remove :manpage: from non-existing man pages
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2026 09:41:11 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877btm2388.fsf@trenco.lwn.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260111233534.183272-3-pvorel@suse.cz>
Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz> writes:
> Removing :manpage: from non-existing man pages (xyzzy(2), xyzzyat(2),
> fxyzzy(3) in adding-syscalls.rst, including translations) prevent
> adding link to nonexisting man pages when using manpages_url in next
> commit.
>
> Signed-off-by: Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz>
> ---
> New in v2.
>
> Documentation/process/adding-syscalls.rst | 14 +++++++-------
> .../translations/it_IT/process/adding-syscalls.rst | 14 +++++++-------
> .../translations/sp_SP/process/adding-syscalls.rst | 14 +++++++-------
> 3 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/process/adding-syscalls.rst b/Documentation/process/adding-syscalls.rst
> index fc0b0bbcd34df..1f61d0b114120 100644
> --- a/Documentation/process/adding-syscalls.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/process/adding-syscalls.rst
> @@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ should use a file descriptor as the handle for that object -- don't invent a
> new type of userspace object handle when the kernel already has mechanisms and
> well-defined semantics for using file descriptors.
>
> -If your new :manpage:`xyzzy(2)` system call does return a new file descriptor,
> +If your new `xyzzy(2)` system call does return a new file descriptor,
Here, once again, you're retaining the backticks. If we need to mark up
those references at all, they should be ``literal``.
(If you simply remove the backticks, you might run into conflict with
automarkup, though I *think* that the section number will evade its
regexp).
Thanks,
jon
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-01-12 16:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-01-11 23:35 [PATCH v2 0/3] Documentation: Link man pages to https://man7.org/ Petr Vorel
2026-01-11 23:35 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] Documentation: sp_SP: Add missing man page section Petr Vorel
2026-01-12 0:00 ` Alejandro Colomar
2026-01-12 16:39 ` Jonathan Corbet
2026-01-11 23:35 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] Documentation: Remove :manpage: from non-existing man pages Petr Vorel
2026-01-12 0:00 ` Alejandro Colomar
2026-01-12 16:41 ` Jonathan Corbet [this message]
2026-01-13 11:00 ` Petr Vorel
2026-01-13 11:49 ` Alejandro Colomar
2026-01-11 23:35 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] Documentation: Link man pages to https://man7.org/ Petr Vorel
2026-01-11 23:58 ` Alejandro Colomar
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