Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] Cleanup Linux Watchdog documentation

From: Guenter Roeck

Date: Mon May 04 2026 - 10:15:20 EST


On 5/4/26 06:49, Philipp Hahn wrote:
From: Philipp Hahn <phahn-oss@xxxxxx>

Hello,

while reading the documentation on the Linux kernel watchdog
subsystem[1] I noticed some strange looking formatting: `struct`s are
detected automatically by Sphinx and the word **after** it is considered
the name of the structure, but the watchdog documentation puts the name
**before** the word `struct`; this leads to the wrong word being
emphasized.

Also reorganize the index page to better separate the documentation on
generic infrastructure from specific drivers – which are mostly obsolete
and relevant for historic documentation only.

Please apply; thank you for all your work.

Philipp

[1]: https://docs.kernel.org/watchdog/convert_drivers_to_kernel_api.html

From Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst:

However, for a multi-patch series, it is generally
best to avoid using In-Reply-To: to link to older versions of the
series. This way multiple versions of the patch don't become an
unmanageable forest of references in email clients.

... but you did that anyway. It also almost guarantees that new
versions of a patch series get lost.

Guenter