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

[Markus Heiser]

Am 18.10.2016 um 17:59 schrieb Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx>:

> 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"?  :)

ups

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

We can chunk as you prefer. The DocBook uio-howto (HTML) was
chunked nearly the same (e.g. <?dbhtml filename="aboutthis.html"?>).

When we place it into "driver-api" (see below) it might be the 
best not to chunk.

>> 
>> [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?

Then we should also change the title "The Userspace I/O HOWTO" also?

> 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.

As Jon says "driver-api":

Am 18.10.2016 um 17:58 schrieb Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx>:

> Markus, slow down just a little bit, please.  Let me get docs-next going
> for 4.9 (will happen once I get LWN together for this week) and get
> Steve's patch applied.  Then I'll be happy to see it reworked.
> 
> When you do that, it should almost certainly be folded into the driver-api
> book.

OK, when the time comes, send me a short mail with hints what way you prefer.

-- Markus --