Re: [PATCH v1 10/25] seqlock: Add RST directives to kernel-doc code samples and notes

Peter Zijlstra
2020-05-22T18:32:26Z

On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 08:26:44PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> writes:
> > On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 08:02:54PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> >> On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 11:45:32PM +0200, Ahmed S. Darwish wrote:
> >> > Mark all C code samples inside seqlock.h kernel-doc text with the RST
> >> > 'code-block: c' directive. Sphinx won't properly format the example code
> >> > and will produce noisy text indentation warnings otherwise.
> >>
> >> I so bloody hate RST.. and now it's infecting perfectly sane comments
> >> and turning them into unreadable junk :-(
> >
> > The correct fix is, as always, to remove the kernel-doc marker.
>
> Get over it already.

I will not let sensible code comments deteriorate to the benefit of some
external piece of crap.

As a programmer the primary interface to all this is a text editor, not
a web broswer or a pdf file or whatever other bullshit.

If comments are unreadable in your text editor, they're useless.