From: Xose Vazquez Perez <xose.vazquez@gmail.com>
To: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>, DOC ML <linux-doc@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [linux] Documentation/arch/sparc/oradax/dax-hv-api.txt and Documentation/driver-api/parport-lowlevel.rst : Form feed (^L) characters
Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2026 11:39:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <25667a7c-e426-413d-aa3d-a52ebbeb9de5@gmail.com> (raw)
Hi,
I noticed that Documentation/arch/sparc/oradax/dax-hv-api.txt and
Documentation/driver-api/parport-lowlevel.rst contains several
legacy form feed (\f, ^L) characters used as page breaks.
I am not sure if these are still required for any specific formatting
reasons or if they should be removed.
They appear in the following lines:
$ grep -n -P '\f' Documentation/arch/sparc/oradax/dax-hv-api.txt Documentation/driver-api/parport-lowlevel.rst
./Documentation/arch/sparc/oradax/dax-hv-api.txt:66:
Coprocessor services
./Documentation/arch/sparc/oradax/dax-hv-api.txt:128:
Coprocessor services
./Documentation/arch/sparc/oradax/dax-hv-api.txt:176:
Coprocessor services
./Documentation/arch/sparc/oradax/dax-hv-api.txt:228:
Coprocessor services
./Documentation/arch/sparc/oradax/dax-hv-api.txt:284:
Coprocessor services
./Documentation/arch/sparc/oradax/dax-hv-api.txt:342:
Coprocessor services
./Documentation/arch/sparc/oradax/dax-hv-api.txt:397:
Coprocessor services
./Documentation/arch/sparc/oradax/dax-hv-api.txt:454:
Coprocessor services
./Documentation/arch/sparc/oradax/dax-hv-api.txt:504:
Coprocessor services
./Documentation/arch/sparc/oradax/dax-hv-api.txt:554:
Coprocessor services
./Documentation/arch/sparc/oradax/dax-hv-api.txt:609:
Coprocessor services
./Documentation/arch/sparc/oradax/dax-hv-api.txt:667:
Coprocessor services
./Documentation/arch/sparc/oradax/dax-hv-api.txt:719:
Coprocessor services
./Documentation/arch/sparc/oradax/dax-hv-api.txt:779:
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./Documentation/arch/sparc/oradax/dax-hv-api.txt:830:
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./Documentation/arch/sparc/oradax/dax-hv-api.txt:887:
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./Documentation/arch/sparc/oradax/dax-hv-api.txt:943:
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./Documentation/arch/sparc/oradax/dax-hv-api.txt:995:
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./Documentation/arch/sparc/oradax/dax-hv-api.txt:1048:
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./Documentation/arch/sparc/oradax/dax-hv-api.txt:1105:
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./Documentation/arch/sparc/oradax/dax-hv-api.txt:1156:
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./Documentation/arch/sparc/oradax/dax-hv-api.txt:1216:
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./Documentation/arch/sparc/oradax/dax-hv-api.txt:1272:
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./Documentation/arch/sparc/oradax/dax-hv-api.txt:1326:
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./Documentation/arch/sparc/oradax/dax-hv-api.txt:1381:
Coprocessor services
./Documentation/arch/sparc/oradax/dax-hv-api.txt:1433:
./Documentation/driver-api/parport-lowlevel.rst:104:
./Documentation/driver-api/parport-lowlevel.rst:504:
./Documentation/driver-api/parport-lowlevel.rst:540:
./Documentation/driver-api/parport-lowlevel.rst:586:
./Documentation/driver-api/parport-lowlevel.rst:674:
./Documentation/driver-api/parport-lowlevel.rst:709:
./Documentation/driver-api/parport-lowlevel.rst:866:
./Documentation/driver-api/parport-lowlevel.rst:1102:
./Documentation/driver-api/parport-lowlevel.rst:1188:
./Documentation/driver-api/parport-lowlevel.rst:1217:
./Documentation/driver-api/parport-lowlevel.rst:1253:
./Documentation/driver-api/parport-lowlevel.rst:1282:
./Documentation/driver-api/parport-lowlevel.rst:1319:
./Documentation/driver-api/parport-lowlevel.rst:1355:
./Documentation/driver-api/parport-lowlevel.rst:1386:
./Documentation/driver-api/parport-lowlevel.rst:1413:
./Documentation/driver-api/parport-lowlevel.rst:1444:
./Documentation/driver-api/parport-lowlevel.rst:1511:
./Documentation/driver-api/parport-lowlevel.rst:1589:
./Documentation/driver-api/parport-lowlevel.rst:1629:
./Documentation/driver-api/parport-lowlevel.rst:1661:
./Documentation/driver-api/parport-lowlevel.rst:1771:
./Documentation/driver-api/parport-lowlevel.rst:1805:
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2026-06-02 9:39 Xose Vazquez Perez [this message]
2026-06-02 17:31 ` [linux] Documentation/arch/sparc/oradax/dax-hv-api.txt and Documentation/driver-api/parport-lowlevel.rst : Form feed (^L) characters Randy Dunlap
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