Re: [PATCH v2 v2] Documentation: proc: fix section numbering in table of contents

[Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>]

Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> writes:

> On 4/24/26 2:06 AM, Baolin Liu wrote:
>> From: Baolin Liu <liubaolin@kylinos.cn>
>> 
>> Commit e24ccaaf7ec4 ("block: remove last remaining traces of IDE
>> documentation") removed the IDE section but left its table of
>> contents entry behind.
>> Fix the stale entry and renumber the following sections.
>> 
>> Fixes: e24ccaaf7ec4 ("block: remove last remaining traces of IDE documentation")
>> Signed-off-by: Baolin Liu <liubaolin@kylinos.cn>
>
> LGTM.
> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
>
> I note that the html-generated TOC is already correct;
> e.g., https://docs.kernel.org/filesystems/proc.html#networking-info-in-proc-net
> is already section 1.3.

There are advantages to having a computer do a job like that :)

I do really question the value of these manually maintained TOCs; they
are always going to be out of date.  But ...

> AFAICT, this TOC is for users/readers who use an editor or pager
> to read this file, but the patch is useful in that setting.

Others seem to disagree, so we keep them.

I've applied the patch, thanks.

jon