From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mail-wm0-f65.google.com ([74.125.82.65]:32886 "EHLO mail-wm0-f65.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751022AbcEDPDE (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 May 2016 11:03:04 -0400 Received: by mail-wm0-f65.google.com with SMTP id r12so10797653wme.0 for ; Wed, 04 May 2016 08:03:03 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 4 May 2016 17:02:54 +0200 From: Daniel Vetter To: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Daniel Vetter , Markus Heiser , Jani Nikula , Grant Likely , Mauro Carvalho Chehab , Dan Allen , Russel Winder , Keith Packard , LKML , linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, Hans Verkuil , "linux-media@vger.kernel.org linux-media" , Graham Whaley Subject: Re: Kernel docs: muddying the waters a bit Message-ID: <20160504150254.GA1286@phenom.ffwll.local> References: <8992F589-5B66-4BDB-807A-79AC8644F006@darmarit.de> <20160412094620.4fbf05c0@lwn.net> <54CDCFE8-45C3-41F6-9497-E02DB4184048@darmarit.de> <874maef8km.fsf@intel.com> <13D877B1-B9A2-412A-BA43-C6A5B881A536@darmarit.de> <20160504134346.GY14148@phenom.ffwll.local> <20160504085713.3b81856d@lwn.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20160504085713.3b81856d@lwn.net> Sender: linux-media-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, May 04, 2016 at 08:57:13AM -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > On Wed, 4 May 2016 16:18:27 +0200 > Daniel Vetter wrote: > > > > I'd really like to converge on the markup question, so that we can start > > > using all the cool stuff with impunity in gpu documentations. > > > > Aside: If we decide this now I could send in a pull request for the > > rst/sphinx kernel-doc support still for 4.7 (based upon the minimal > > markdown/asciidoc code I still have). That would be really awesome ... > > Sorry for my relative absence...I'm still busy dealing with bureaucracy > an ocean away from home. I hope to begin emerging from this mess in the > near future. > > So ... there's the code you have, the work I (+Jani) did, and the work > Markus has done. Which would you have me push into 4.7? > > The sphinx/rst approach does seem, to me, to be the right one, with the > existing DocBook structure remaining in place for those who want/need > it. I'm inclined toward my stuff as a base to work with, obviously :) But > it's hackish at best and needs a lot of cleaning up. It's a proof of > concept, but it's hardly finished (one might say it's barely begun...) > > In the end, I guess, I feel that anything we might try to push for 4.7 is > going to look rushed and not ready, and Linus might react accordingly. > I'd be more comfortable aiming for 4.8. I *will* have more time to focus > on things in that time frame... I suspect you're pretty well fed up with > this stuff being pushed back, and rightly so. All I can do is apologize. > > That said, if you do think there's something out there that is good > enough to consider pushing in a week or two, do tell and we can all take > a look. Well I'd just have taken the asciidoc hacks I have currently in my topic/kerneldoc branch, converted to sphinx and looked how it fares. It should be fairly minimal, and I think the first step we want to do for the long-term plan. I hope I can ready something, and then we can look whether it's rushed for 4.7 or not. Thanks, Daniel -- Daniel Vetter Software Engineer, Intel Corporation http://blog.ffwll.ch