From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Peter Lister <peter@bikeshed.quignogs.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>,
Linux Doc Mailing List <linux-doc@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>,
linux-usb@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 08/29] docs: filesystems: convert configfs.txt to ReST
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2020 14:51:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200427125132.GB31904@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <894438a6-cd91-1728-a313-4bf4f8d5074d@bikeshed.quignogs.org.uk>
On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 06:28:54PM +0100, Peter Lister wrote:
> On 21/04/2020 18:23, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>> 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.
>
> You aren't supposed to read REST documentation files - as opposed to
> kerneldoc comments in the C source - any more than you read HTML.
And that is the whole problem. Optimizing for reading in a browser might
be an okay tradeoff for end-user documentation. But it is absolutely
the wrong thing for internal API documentation where you want to jump
to them by opening them in the same text editor.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-04-27 12:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-21 16:54 [PATCH v2 00/29] fs: convert remaining docs to ReST file format Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2020-04-21 16:54 ` [PATCH v2 01/29] docs: filesystems: convert caching/object.txt to ReST Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2020-04-21 16:54 ` [PATCH v2 02/29] docs: filesystems: convert caching/fscache.txt to ReST format Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2020-04-21 16:54 ` [PATCH v2 03/29] docs: filesystems: caching/netfs-api.txt: convert it to ReST Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2020-04-21 16:54 ` [PATCH v2 04/29] docs: filesystems: caching/operations.txt: " Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2020-04-21 16:54 ` [PATCH v2 05/29] docs: filesystems: caching/cachefiles.txt: convert " Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2020-04-21 16:54 ` [PATCH v2 06/29] docs: filesystems: caching/backend-api.txt: convert it " Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2020-04-21 16:54 ` [PATCH v2 07/29] docs: filesystems: convert cifs/cifsroot.txt " Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2020-04-21 16:54 ` [PATCH v2 08/29] docs: filesystems: convert configfs.txt " Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2020-04-21 16:55 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-04-21 17:02 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-04-21 17:23 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-04-21 22:39 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2020-04-21 22:53 ` Jonathan Corbet
2020-04-27 12:53 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-04-27 21:08 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2020-04-24 17:28 ` Peter Lister
2020-04-24 18:01 ` Jonathan Corbet
2020-04-27 12:51 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2020-04-22 6:02 ` Felipe Balbi
2020-04-24 17:34 ` Peter Lister
2020-04-27 21:02 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2020-04-21 16:54 ` [PATCH v2 09/29] docs: filesystems: convert automount-support.txt " Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2020-04-21 16:54 ` [PATCH v2 11/29] docs: filesystems: convert devpts.txt " Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2020-04-21 16:54 ` [PATCH v2 12/29] docs: filesystems: convert dnotify.txt " Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2020-04-21 16:54 ` [PATCH v2 13/29] docs: filesystems: convert fiemap.txt " Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2020-04-21 16:54 ` [PATCH v2 14/29] docs: filesystems: convert files.txt " Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2020-04-21 16:54 ` [PATCH v2 15/29] docs: filesystems: convert fuse-io.txt " Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2020-04-21 16:54 ` [PATCH v2 16/29] docs: filesystems: convert locks.txt " Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2020-04-21 16:54 ` [PATCH v2 17/29] docs: filesystems: convert mandatory-locking.txt " Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2020-04-21 16:54 ` [PATCH v2 18/29] docs: filesystems: convert mount_api.txt " Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2020-04-21 16:54 ` [PATCH v2 19/29] docs: filesystems: convert quota.txt " Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2020-04-21 16:54 ` [PATCH v2 20/29] docs: filesystems: convert seq_file.txt " Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2020-04-21 16:54 ` [PATCH v2 21/29] docs: filesystems: convert sharedsubtree.txt " Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2020-04-21 16:54 ` [PATCH v2 22/29] docs: filesystems: split spufs.txt into 3 separate files Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2020-04-21 16:54 ` [PATCH v2 23/29] docs: filesystems: convert spufs/spu_create.txt to ReST Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2020-04-21 16:54 ` [PATCH v2 24/29] docs: filesystems: convert spufs/spufs.txt " Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2020-04-21 16:54 ` [PATCH v2 25/29] docs: filesystems: convert spufs/spu_run.txt " Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2020-04-21 16:54 ` [PATCH v2 26/29] docs: filesystems: convert sysfs-pci.txt " Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2020-04-21 16:54 ` [PATCH v2 27/29] docs: filesystems: convert sysfs-tagging.txt " Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2020-04-21 16:54 ` [PATCH v2 28/29] docs: filesystems: convert xfs-delayed-logging-design.txt " Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2020-04-21 16:54 ` [PATCH v2 29/29] docs: filesystems: convert xfs-self-describing-metadata.txt " Mauro Carvalho Chehab
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