Re: [PATCH v3] Documentation: Document the Linux Kernel CVE process

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2024-02-16T11:22:48Z

On Fri, Feb 16, 2024 at 10:28:39AM +0200, Jani Nikula wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Feb 2024, Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com> wrote:
> > On 15/02/2024 12:50, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> >> On Wed, Feb 14, 2024 at 09:37:31AM +0100, Vegard Nossum wrote:
> >>> Document titles should have ==== above them as well, and then you would
> >>> need to shift all the other headings in this document (i.e. all the ---
> >>> should become ===).
> >>>
> >>> Info here: https://docs.kernel.org/doc-guide/sphinx.html#specific-guidelines-for-the-kernel-documentation
> >>
> >> Really? I copied this directly from
> >> Documentation/process/security-bugs.rst which is in the format that I
> >> used here. Which one is incorrect, I'm confused.
> >
> > Documentation/ currently has a mix of both formats and they both work,
> > but the guidelines linked above is the gold standard and what we should
> > aim for in new documents.
> >
> > The "correct" format would thus be:
> >
> > ====
> > CVEs
> > ====
> >
> > ...
> >
> > Process
> > =======
> >
> > ...
> >
> > At least this is my understanding; I'm happy to be corrected (and in
> > this case, we should also update the documentation).
>
> rst basically allows any order of the heading underlines, and their
> relative hierarchy is determined by how they show up in each document,
> it's not specified by rst. However, it would be much easier for everyone
> if all the kernel documents followed the same style.

Agreed, someone should pick a style and sweep the whole directory and
sync them up to the agreed formatting. :)

thanks,

greg k-h