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From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Borislav Petkov (AMD)" <bp@alien8.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation/kernel-parameters: Move the kernel build options
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 09:20:36 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a50j5n3f.fsf@trenco.lwn.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251112114641.8230-1-bp@kernel.org>

Borislav Petkov <bp@kernel.org> writes:

> From: "Borislav Petkov (AMD)" <bp@alien8.de>
>
> Move the kernel build options abbreviations to the .txt file so that
> they are together instead of one having to go hunt them in the .rst
> file.
>
> Tweak the formatting so that the inclusion of kernel-parameters.txt
> still keeps the whole thing somewhat presentable in the html output too.
>
> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
> ---
>  .../admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst         | 97 +-----------------
>  .../admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt         | 98 +++++++++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 99 insertions(+), 96 deletions(-)

So I applied this, but it's dancing around the real problem: that this
material is split into two files in the first place.  I honestly don't
remember why it was done that way - maybe just to ease the RST
transition back in 2016.  I think we should really just pull all of
kernel-parameters.txt into the RST file.

jon

  parent reply	other threads:[~2025-11-18 16:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-11-12 11:46 [PATCH] Documentation/kernel-parameters: Move the kernel build options Borislav Petkov
2025-11-13  1:12 ` Randy Dunlap
2025-11-18 16:20 ` Jonathan Corbet [this message]
2025-11-19 15:06   ` Borislav Petkov
2025-11-19 15:42     ` Jonathan Corbet
2025-11-19 19:09       ` Borislav Petkov
2025-12-01 17:35         ` Jani Nikula

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