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Sun, 11 Jan 2026 23:29:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from dovecot-director2.suse.de ([2a07:de40:b281:106:10:150:64:167]) by imap1.dmz-prg2.suse.org with ESMTPSA id T+1lGUwyZGl+EQAAD6G6ig (envelope-from ); Sun, 11 Jan 2026 23:29:16 +0000 Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2026 00:29:15 +0100 From: Petr Vorel To: Alejandro Colomar Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, Jonathan Corbet , Michael Kerrisk , man-pages@man7.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] Documentation: Link man pages to https://man7.org/ Message-ID: <20260111232915.GC170559@pevik> Reply-To: Petr Vorel References: <20260109183012.114372-1-pvorel@suse.cz> <20260111230639.GB170559@pevik> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-2.50 / 50.00]; BAYES_HAM(-3.00)[99.99%]; URL_IN_SUBJECT(1.00)[man7.org]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-1.00)[-1.000]; MID_RHS_NOT_FQDN(0.50)[]; HAS_REPLYTO(0.30)[pvorel@suse.cz]; NEURAL_HAM_SHORT(-0.20)[-1.000]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; RCVD_VIA_SMTP_AUTH(0.00)[]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; MISSING_XM_UA(0.00)[]; TO_DN_SOME(0.00)[]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; FUZZY_RATELIMITED(0.00)[rspamd.com]; RCVD_TLS_ALL(0.00)[]; RCPT_COUNT_FIVE(0.00)[5]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; DKIM_SIGNED(0.00)[suse.cz:s=susede2_rsa,suse.cz:s=susede2_ed25519]; RCVD_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_ALL(0.00)[]; DBL_BLOCKED_OPENRESOLVER(0.00)[sphinx-doc.org:url,imap1.dmz-prg2.suse.org:helo,man7.org:url,suse.cz:replyto]; REPLYTO_EQ_FROM(0.00)[] X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -2.50 X-Spam-Level: > Hi Petr, > On Mon, Jan 12, 2026 at 12:06:39AM +0100, Petr Vorel wrote: > > > I wonder if this could be implemented in a way that wouldn't need > > > changing any lines of documentation. > > Good point. Yes, there is sphinx way to do it as one liner (no need for any > > python scripting): > > https://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master/usage/configuration.html#confval-manpages_url > > But the problem is that it creates links also for non-existing man pages > > (xyzzy(2), xyzzyat(2), fxyzzy(3)) in adding-syscalls.rst. I'll convert them not > > being man pages. > Maybe we could solve that. Do you have a list of undocumented syscalls? > We could quickly add small manual pages for all of them, documenting > only the SYNOPSIS. > The rest of the documentation could come later, but some documentation > would be better than no documentation. > What do you think? IMHO these xyzzy(2), xyzzyat(2), fxyzzy(3) are examples for new syscalls (like "foo" and "bar" or example.org). I don't think it'd be good to create a real man page for them. Instead I just remove :manpage: from them. Kind regards, Petr > Have a lovely night! > Alex > > Kind regards, > > Petr