Re: [PATCH] Documentation/llvm: Improve formatting of commands, variables, and arguments

[Masahiro Yamada]

On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 10:36 PM Nick Desaulniers
<ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Aug 25, 2020 at 4:14 PM Nathan Chancellor
> <natechancellor@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > While reviewing a separate patch, I noticed that the formatting of the
> > commands, variables, and arguments was not in a monospaced font like the
> > rest of the Kbuild documentation (see kbuild/kconfig.rst for an
> > example). This is due to a lack of "::" before indented command blocks
> > and single backticks instead of double backticks for inline formatting.
> >
> > Add those so that the document looks nicer in an HTML format, while not
> > ruining the look in plain text.
> >
> > As a result of this, we can remove the escaped backslashes in the last
> > code block and move them to single backslashes.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Ah, yeah, I saw that. Thanks for the fix!
> Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> > ---
> >  Documentation/kbuild/llvm.rst | 26 +++++++++++++-------------
> >  1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/llvm.rst b/Documentation/kbuild/llvm.rst
> > index 2aac50b97921..334df758dce3 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/kbuild/llvm.rst
> > +++ b/Documentation/kbuild/llvm.rst
> > @@ -23,8 +23,8 @@ supports C and the GNU C extensions required by the kernel, and is pronounced
> >  Clang
> >  -----
> >
> > -The compiler used can be swapped out via `CC=` command line argument to `make`.
> > -`CC=` should be set when selecting a config and during a build.
> > +The compiler used can be swapped out via ``CC=`` command line argument to ``make``.
> > +``CC=`` should be set when selecting a config and during a build. ::
> >
> >         make CC=clang defconfig
> >
> > @@ -34,33 +34,33 @@ Cross Compiling
> >  ---------------
> >
> >  A single Clang compiler binary will typically contain all supported backends,
> > -which can help simplify cross compiling.
> > +which can help simplify cross compiling. ::
> >
> >         ARCH=arm64 CROSS_COMPILE=aarch64-linux-gnu- make CC=clang
> >
> > -`CROSS_COMPILE` is not used to prefix the Clang compiler binary, instead
> > -`CROSS_COMPILE` is used to set a command line flag: `--target <triple>`. For
> > -example:
> > +``CROSS_COMPILE`` is not used to prefix the Clang compiler binary, instead
> > +``CROSS_COMPILE`` is used to set a command line flag: ``--target <triple>``. For
> > +example: ::
> >
> >         clang --target aarch64-linux-gnu foo.c
> >
> >  LLVM Utilities
> >  --------------
> >
> > -LLVM has substitutes for GNU binutils utilities. Kbuild supports `LLVM=1`
> > -to enable them.
> > +LLVM has substitutes for GNU binutils utilities. Kbuild supports ``LLVM=1``
> > +to enable them. ::
> >
> >         make LLVM=1
> >
> > -They can be enabled individually. The full list of the parameters:
> > +They can be enabled individually. The full list of the parameters: ::
> >
> > -       make CC=clang LD=ld.lld AR=llvm-ar NM=llvm-nm STRIP=llvm-strip \\
> > -         OBJCOPY=llvm-objcopy OBJDUMP=llvm-objdump OBJSIZE=llvm-size \\
> > -         READELF=llvm-readelf HOSTCC=clang HOSTCXX=clang++ HOSTAR=llvm-ar \\
> > +       make CC=clang LD=ld.lld AR=llvm-ar NM=llvm-nm STRIP=llvm-strip \
> > +         OBJCOPY=llvm-objcopy OBJDUMP=llvm-objdump OBJSIZE=llvm-size \
> > +         READELF=llvm-readelf HOSTCC=clang HOSTCXX=clang++ HOSTAR=llvm-ar \
> >           HOSTLD=ld.lld
> >
> >  Currently, the integrated assembler is disabled by default. You can pass
> > -`LLVM_IAS=1` to enable it.
> > +``LLVM_IAS=1`` to enable it.
> >
> >  Getting Help
> >  ------------
> >
> > base-commit: abb3438d69fb6dd5baa4ae23eafbf5b87945eff1
> > --


Applied to linux-kbuild/fixes.
Thanks.

-- 
Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada