From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on archive.lwn.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.0 required=5.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_NONE,URIBL_SBL, URIBL_SBL_A autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by archive.lwn.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 718617D919 for ; Fri, 28 Jun 2019 15:10:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726738AbfF1PKX (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Jun 2019 11:10:23 -0400 Received: from ms.lwn.net ([45.79.88.28]:35104 "EHLO ms.lwn.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726616AbfF1PKX (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Jun 2019 11:10:23 -0400 Received: from lwn.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by ms.lwn.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id A1B4D5A0; Fri, 28 Jun 2019 15:10:22 +0000 (UTC) Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2019 09:10:21 -0600 From: Jonathan Corbet To: Stephen Kitt Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] docs: format kernel-parameters -- as code Message-ID: <20190628091021.457d0301@lwn.net> In-Reply-To: <20190627135938.3722-1-steve@sk2.org> References: <20190627135938.3722-1-steve@sk2.org> Organization: LWN.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-doc-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 27 Jun 2019 15:59:38 +0200 Stephen Kitt wrote: > The current ReStructuredText formatting results in "--", used to > indicate the end of the kernel command-line parameters, appearing as > an en-dash instead of two hyphens; this patch formats them as code, > "``--``", as done elsewhere in the documentation. > > Signed-off-by: Stephen Kitt A worthy fix, I've applied it. This seems like the sort of annoyance that will bite us over and over, though. We might want to find a more comprehensive way to turn this behavior off. Thanks, jon