From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
To: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>,
Nicolas Frattaroli <nicolas.frattaroli@collabora.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>,
kernel@collabora.com, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] docs: document linked lists
Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2025 20:52:21 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h5zum1ei.fsf@trenco.lwn.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <aGXeyqygzKi2P-kP@archie.me>
Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com> writes:
> On Wed, Jul 02, 2025 at 10:24:47PM +0200, Nicolas Frattaroli wrote:
>> +In State 2, we've added Grock after the list head::
>> +
>> + .--------------------.
>> + v |
>> + .--------. .-------. |
>> + | clowns |---->| Grock |--'
>> + '--------' '-------'
>
> Looks like the corners are a bit imbalanced (single quotes are taller than
> dots). What about using plus instead? Like:
>
> ---- >8 ----
> diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/list.rst b/Documentation/core-api/list.rst
> index b0586056abb04d..bf92f44d7b2d06 100644
> --- a/Documentation/core-api/list.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/core-api/list.rst
> @@ -148,11 +148,11 @@ clarity.
>
> In State 2, we've added Grock after the list head::
>
> - .--------------------.
> + +--------------------+
> v |
One might argue that it looks like a nice curve and should stay as-is.
This work is welcome and deserves a serious review, this wasn't it.
jon
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-07-03 2:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-07-02 20:24 [PATCH v2] docs: document linked lists Nicolas Frattaroli
2025-07-03 1:37 ` Bagas Sanjaya
2025-07-03 2:52 ` Jonathan Corbet [this message]
2025-07-03 2:54 ` Bagas Sanjaya
2025-07-03 3:24 ` Bagas Sanjaya
2025-07-03 4:16 ` Randy Dunlap
2025-07-03 5:48 ` Bagas Sanjaya
2025-07-03 6:06 ` Randy Dunlap
2025-07-03 6:39 ` Bagas Sanjaya
2025-07-03 6:55 ` Randy Dunlap
2025-07-03 14:10 ` Jonathan Corbet
2025-07-04 20:53 ` Randy Dunlap
2025-07-07 9:11 ` David Laight
2025-07-07 12:30 ` Nicolas Frattaroli
2025-07-13 7:08 ` Randy Dunlap
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