Re: [PATCH] docs: Extend and refactor index of further kernel docs

Randy Dunlap
2024-06-12T23:07:48Z

On 6/12/24 3:17 PM, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>
>
> On 6/1/24 8:03 AM, Carlos Bilbao wrote:
>> Extend the Index of Further Kernel Documentation by adding entries for the
>> Rust for Linux website, the Linux Foundation's YouTube channel, and notes
>> on the second edition of Billimoria's kernel programming book. Also,
>> perform some refactoring: format the text to 75 characters per line and
>> sort per-section content in chronological order of publication.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Carlos Bilbao <carlos.bilbao.osdev@gmail.com>
>> ---
>>  Documentation/process/kernel-docs.rst | 68 +++++++++++++++++----------
>>  1 file changed, 44 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/Documentation/process/kernel-docs.rst
>> b/Documentation/process/kernel-docs.rst
>
> The 2 lines above should be on one line, but fixing that doesn't fix everything.
> 'patch' still says that it's a malformed patch.
>
> Carlos, please check Documentation/process/email-clients.rst section on
> Thunderbird, especially for line length and line wrap.
>
> I'm still looking...

I don't know what is causing it, but there are a bunch of non-ASCII characters
in the patch file. Specifically 0xc2 at the beginning of many lines. E.g., when
I copy/paste only the "Index of Further" & ===== lines into a small text file:

> hd docs-chars.txt
000000 c2 a0 49 6e 64 65 78 20 6f 66 20 46 75 72 74 68 >..Index of Furth<
000010 65 72 20 4b 65 72 6e 65 6c 20 44 6f 63 75 6d 65 >er Kernel Docume<
000020 6e 74 61 74 69 6f 6e 0a c2 a0 3d 3d 3d 3d 3d 3d >ntation...======<
000030 3d 3d 3d 3d 3d 3d 3d 3d 3d 3d 3d 3d 3d 3d 3d 3d >================<
000040 3d 3d 3d 3d 3d 3d 3d 3d 3d 3d 3d 3d 3d 3d 3d 0a >===============.<

>
>> index 8660493b91d0..6f3e290abd22 100644
>> --- a/Documentation/process/kernel-docs.rst
>> +++ b/Documentation/process/kernel-docs.rst
>> @@ -3,27 +3,27 @@
>>  Index of Further Kernel Documentation
>>  =====================================
>
>

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~Randy