Re: [PATCH 5/5] docs: networking: device_drivers: fix bad usage of UTF-8 chars

From: Jonathan Corbet
Date: Tue May 11 2021 - 14:24:56 EST


Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx> writes:

>> -monitoring tools such as ifstat or sar –n DEV [interval] [number of samples]
>> +monitoring tools such as `ifstat` or `sar -n DEV [interval] [number of samples]`
>
> ...
>
>> For example: min_rate 1Gbit 3Gbit: Verify bandwidth limit using network
>> -monitoring tools such as ifstat or sar –n DEV [interval] [number of samples]
>> +monitoring tools such as ``ifstat`` or ``sar -n DEV [interval] [number of samples]``
>
> Is there a difference between ` and `` ? Does it make sense to be
> consistent?

This is `just weird quotes`
This is ``literal text`` set in monospace in processed output.

There is a certain tension between those who want to see liberal use of
literal-text markup, and those who would rather have less markup in the
text overall; certainly, it's better not to go totally nuts with it.

jon