From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from ms.lwn.net ([45.79.88.28]) by merlin.infradead.org with esmtps (Exim 4.92.3 #3 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1kG5xF-0007ns-AB for linux-um@lists.infradead.org; Wed, 09 Sep 2020 19:40:30 +0000 Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2020 13:40:21 -0600 From: Jonathan Corbet Subject: Re: [PATCH] docs: add a new User Mode Linux HowTo Message-ID: <20200909134021.290ea546@lwn.net> In-Reply-To: <14181df1-60a4-530e-e7f2-df4e1a2972a1@cambridgegreys.com> References: <20200904141115.15708-1-anton.ivanov@cambridgegreys.com> <20200909115203.7c898211@lwn.net> <14181df1-60a4-530e-e7f2-df4e1a2972a1@cambridgegreys.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: "linux-um" Errors-To: linux-um-bounces+geert=linux-m68k.org@lists.infradead.org To: Anton Ivanov Cc: richard@nod.at, linux-um@lists.infradead.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 9 Sep 2020 20:37:35 +0100 Anton Ivanov wrote: > >> +Create a sparse raw disk image: > >> + > >> +.. code-block:: shell > >> + > >> + dd if=/dev/zero of=disk_image_name bs=1 count=1 seek=16G > > > > I'd honestly do without all these code-block directives as well; they > > clutter things considerably for little advantage. > > I can merge most of these into a couple of code snippets. I would like > to leave the content though. As UML does not have an official installer, > the only way to install it is to build images and there is not that much > information on this on the net. The only well written piece on the > subject is > 10 years old and becoming a bit out of date. Don't misunderstand me - the code is fine and welcome. It's the ".. code-block::" directives that I'm taking issue with. I'd rather see ordinary literal blocks instead. Thanks, jon _______________________________________________ linux-um mailing list linux-um@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-um