Re: [PATCH v2 08/29] docs: filesystems: convert configfs.txt to ReST

[Jonathan Corbet]

On Fri, 24 Apr 2020 18:28:54 +0100
Peter Lister <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 21/04/2020 18:23, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > It wasn't entirely uncommon, but that's not really the point.  The
> > Problem is all the weird ".." or "::" annotations that really kill
> > the flow, or things like "|copy|" that have no reason to exist.  
> 
> You aren't supposed to read REST documentation files - as opposed to 
> kerneldoc comments in the C source - any more than you read HTML.

I am sorry, but that is not the approach we take at all.  RST was chosen
*because* it is readable plain text, and the readability of the source
docs is of high importance; that's not going to change.

Thanks,

jon