Re: [PATCH v2 0/1] docs: examples of pages affected by C API signature overflow
From: Jonathan Corbet
Date: Sun Mar 22 2026 - 16:35:39 EST
Rito Rhymes <rito@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Examples of affected pages on docs.kernel.org this patch improves:
> core-api/genalloc.html
> userspace-api/iommufd.html
> userspace-api/liveupdate.html
> core-api/liveupdate.html
> arch/sh/index.html
> arch/x86/sgx.html
> devicetree/kernel-api.html
> userspace-api/fwctl/fwctl-cxl.html
> driver-api/regulator.html
> driver-api/reset.html
> driver-api/s390-drivers.html
> driver-api/scsi.html
> driver-api/spi.html
> driver-api/target.html
> driver-api/wbrf.html
> driver-api/wmi.html
>
> Rito Rhymes (1):
> docs: contain horizontal overflow in C API descriptions
>
> Documentation/sphinx-static/custom.css | 7 +++++++
> 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
This is a general comment applying to most of the patches you have sent:
is not a typical or particularly helpful cover letter. The cover letter
tells reviewers what the series as a whole does; this one does not.
Perhaps more to the point, a cover letter is rarely warranted for a
single patch; just put any relevant information into the changelog of
the patch itself.
In this case, some examples of the problem being solved are certainly
warranted, though perhaps not so many as given here. They should be in
the patch changelog so that somebody wondering, years from now, why the
patch was applied can gain that understanding.
The names of HTML files are perhaps not ideal; since you're talking
about docs.kernel.org in particular, you could give URLs that people
could view directly. So, for example:
https://docs.kernel.org/6.19/core-api/genalloc.html
Note the explicit version so that the problem will be findable in the
distant future, even after the fix is applied.
Thanks,
jon