Re: [PATCH] doc: memory-barriers: reStructure Text

[afzal mohammed]

Hi,

On Thu, Jan 04, 2018 at 09:48:50AM +0800, Boqun Feng wrote:

> > The location chosen is "Documentation/kernel-hacking", i was unsure
> > where this should reside & there was no .rst file in top-level directory
> > "Documentation", so put it into one of the existing folder that seemed
> > to me as not that unsuitable.
> > 
> > Other files refer to memory-barrier.txt, those also needs to be
> > adjusted based on where .rst can reside.

> How do you plan to handle the external references? For example, the
> following LWN articles has a link this file:
> 
> 	https://lwn.net/Articles/718628/
> 
> And changing the name and/or location will break that link, AFAIK.

If necessary to handle these, symlink might help here i believe.

Upon trying to understand memory-barriers.txt, i felt that it might be
better to have it in PDF/HTML format, thus attempted to convert it to
rst. And i see it not being welcomed, hence shelving the conversion.

afzal