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From: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
To: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
Cc: Johann Felix Soden <johfel@gmx.de>, Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix file references in Kconfig files
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 14:41:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E943980.8040807@suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1318320079.18122.38.camel@x61.thuisdomein>

On 11.10.2011 10:01, Paul Bolle wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-10-11 at 01:10 +0200, Johann Felix Soden wrote:
>> This patch fixes file references to moved or deleted files
>> outside of Documentation/.
> 
> Apparently you grepped on something like "<file:.*". This triggers an
> issue I've been wondering about a bit.
> 
> Would anyone know why some file references are wrapped in a "<file:" -
> ">" pair while others are not? The same thing can be seen with "http://"
> links: some are wrapped in angle brackets while others are not. What do
> these brackets (and the "file:" prefix) actually provide?

I guess the plan was to display these references as clickable links in
the graphical front-ends, but this has never been implemented.

Michal

      reply	other threads:[~2011-10-11 12:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-03 23:11 [PATCH] Fix file references in the whole tree Johann Felix Soden
2011-10-04 23:09 ` Randy Dunlap
2011-10-10 18:37 ` [PATCH] ide: Fix file references in drivers/ide/ Randy Dunlap
2011-10-10 18:59   ` Paul Bolle
2011-10-10 19:17   ` David Miller
2011-10-10 18:58 ` [PATCH] Fix file references in the whole tree Randy Dunlap
2011-10-10 21:51   ` Jiri Kosina
2011-10-10 23:10     ` [PATCH] Fix file references in Kconfig files Johann Felix Soden
2011-10-11  8:01       ` Paul Bolle
2011-10-11 12:41         ` Michal Marek [this message]

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