Re: [PATCH] cleanup: Add usage and style documentation
From: Dan Williams
Date: Sat Mar 23 2024 - 20:58:09 EST
Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 22, 2024 at 12:10:38PM -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
> > Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > > So I despise all that RST stuff. It makes what should be trivially
> > > readable text into a trainwreck. We're coders, we use text editors to
> > > read comments.
> >
> > Ok, I will rip out the RST stuff and just make this a standalone comment.
>
> I would rather you ignored Peter's persistent whining about RST and
> kept the formatting.
Hmm, how about split the difference and teach scripts/kernel-doc to treat
Peter's preferred markup for a C code example as a synonym, i.e.
effectively a search and replace of a line with only:
Ex.
..with:
.. code-block:: c
..within a kernel-doc DOC: section?
Might be easier said the done as I stare down a pile of perl. Maybe a
perl wrangler will come along and take pity on this patch.