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From: "Tobin C. Harding" <me@tobin.cc>
To: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: "Tobin C. Harding" <tobin@kernel.org>,
	linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/4] docs: Remove unnecessary reference link title
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2019 09:21:36 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190409232136.GA23698@eros.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190409152030.2ed66e86@lwn.net>

On Tue, Apr 09, 2019 at 03:20:30PM -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> On Tue,  9 Apr 2019 10:43:58 +1000
> "Tobin C. Harding" <tobin@kernel.org> wrote:
> 
> > Labels that precede a heading use the heading as the link title.
> > Explicitly adding the link title is redundant and  makes the reference
> > slightly less maintainable.
> > 
> > Remove unnecessary reference link title.
> 
> So I agree with the objective, but...
> 
> > -	As mentioned above in :ref:`VMA policies <vma_policy>` section,
> > +	As mentioned above in :ref:`vma_policy` section,
> 
> ...this one generates a warning that highlights a flaw in the reasoning
> here:
> 
> 	Documentation/admin-guide/mm/numa_memory_policy.rst:144: WARNING:
> 	undefined label: vma-policy (if the link has no caption the label
> 	must precede a section header)
> 
> Said label does not precede a section header, so it can't be used bare in
> this way.

That's weird, I did a clean build before and after applying the set and
diffed the stderr outputs, I wonder how I missed this.

> I'll apply the other three, but this one needs some repairs :)

thanks,
Tobin.

  reply	other threads:[~2019-04-09 23:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-04-09  0:43 [PATCH v2 0/4] docs: Fix various build warnings/errors Tobin C. Harding
2019-04-09  0:43 ` [PATCH v2 1/4] docs: Fix spelling mistake Tobin C. Harding
2019-04-09  0:43 ` [PATCH v2 2/4] docs: Add colon clearing sphinx warning Tobin C. Harding
2019-04-09  0:43 ` [PATCH v2 3/4] docs: Remove unnecessary reference link title Tobin C. Harding
2019-04-09 21:20   ` Jonathan Corbet
2019-04-09 23:21     ` Tobin C. Harding [this message]
2019-04-09  0:43 ` [PATCH v2 4/4] docs: Use reference to link to rst file Tobin C. Harding

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