Re: Kernel docs: muddying the waters a bit

From: Jonathan Corbet
Date: Tue Feb 16 2016 - 14:59:09 EST


On Tue, 16 Feb 2016 11:13:29 -0800
Keith Packard <keithp@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> https://github.com/HolgerPeters/sphinxcontrib-docbook
>
> which appears to provide docbook output for sphinx, but I haven't tested
> this at all.

Yup, that's the one I found, the one that says "Very much work in
progress". It looks like that work stopped almost a year ago.

> Of course, docbook is just a means to an end -- the question should
> probably be what final output formats are actually required and whether
> the tools generate those in a reasonable fashion.

Indeed, I doubt many people want the DocBook itself.

jon