Re: [PATCH] doc-rst: DocBook to reST migration of the uio-howto.tmpl

From: Greg KH
Date: Tue Oct 18 2016 - 11:59:22 EST


On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 05:52:58PM +0200, Markus Heiser wrote:
> The migration is done with the dbxml2rst project with small additional
> handmade. The uio-howto is chunked along its chapters into smal parts.

"small"? :)

And why small parts? Is that the new "desired" way?

>
> [1] https://return42.github.io/dbxml2rst/
>
> Signed-off-by: Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Documentation/DocBook/Makefile | 2 +-
> Documentation/DocBook/uio-howto.tmpl | 1050 ----------------------
> Documentation/conf.py | 2 +
> Documentation/index.rst | 1 +
> Documentation/uio-howto/about_uio.rst | 150 ++++
> Documentation/uio-howto/aboutthisdoc.rst | 103 +++
> Documentation/uio-howto/conf.py | 10 +
> Documentation/uio-howto/custom_kernel_module.rst | 245 +++++
> Documentation/uio-howto/index.rst | 45 +
> Documentation/uio-howto/uio_pci_generic.rst | 168 ++++
> Documentation/uio-howto/userspace_driver.rst | 86 ++

As this isn't just a howto, can we have it in Documentation/uio/
instead? Or, if we are going to mirror the source tree, would
Documentation/drivers/uio/ make more sense? I'll defer to the
Documentation maintainer about this as I'm sure they have an idea of
what they want to do.

thanks,

greg k-h