Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] [PATCH v2 1/2] docs: timers: hpet: Modernize file references

From: Jonathan Corbet

Date: Sat Sep 26 2026 - 17:46:36 EST


"Habil Eren Türker" <habilerenturker@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> The current HPET documentation contains outdated 'file:' prefixes for
> source tree references, which breaks proper rendering and hyperlink
> generation under the modern Sphinx-based documentation ecosystem.
>
> Fix this by modernizing the paths using the standard literal backticks
> formatting.
>
> Signed-off-by: Habil Eren Türker <habilerenturker@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Documentation/timers/hpet.rst | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/timers/hpet.rst b/Documentation/timers/hpet.rst
> index c9d05d3ca..fe02bfd5d 100644
> --- a/Documentation/timers/hpet.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/timers/hpet.rst
> @@ -23,8 +23,8 @@ The driver supports detection of HPET driver allocation and initialization
> of the HPET before the driver module_init routine is called. This enables
> platform code which uses timer 0 or 1 as the main timer to intercept HPET
> initialization. An example of this initialization can be found in
> -arch/x86/kernel/hpet.c.
> +``arch/x86/kernel/hpet.c``.
>
> The driver provides a userspace API which resembles the API found in the
> RTC driver framework. An example user space program is provided in
> -file:samples/timers/hpet_example.c
> +``samples/timers/hpet_example.c``
> \ No newline at end of file

That last line is something you should really have fixed before sending
this patch.

Thanks,

jon