Re: [PATCH 00/10] Documentation/Sphinx

From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab
Date: Mon Jun 27 2016 - 13:08:38 EST


Em Mon, 27 Jun 2016 08:15:28 +0200
Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@xxxxxxxxxxx> escreveu:

> Am 24.06.2016 um 12:40 schrieb Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
> > Em Tue, 31 May 2016 12:16:25 +0200
> > Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@xxxxxxxxxxx> escreveu:
> >
> >> Am 30.05.2016 um 23:23 schrieb Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> >>
> >>> Em Mon, 30 May 2016 23:05:34 +0300
> >>> Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@xxxxxxxxx> escreveu:
> >>>
> >>>>> I worry a little bit in that reST will be only one more toolchain
> >>>>> beside DocBook .. in the long term, kernel's documentation
> >>>>> should get rid of all the DocBook artifacts and for this a more
> >>>>> comprehensive solution is needed.
> >>>>
> >>>> We agree on the end goal, eradicate DocBook. I must say that in my
> >>>> experiments, apart from the media docs, almost everything converts
> >>>> surprisingly nicely or IMO "good enough" with just the tmplcvt script in
> >>>> this series.
> >>>
> >>> With regards to media, my plan is to merge create a topic branch based
> >>> on Kernel 4.7-rc1 at:
> >>> https://git.linuxtv.org/media_tree.git/
> >>>
> >>> As none of the Jani's patches seem to affect the media API docs, it
> >>> seems I don't need to merge back from Jon's -next branch.
> >>>
> >>> There, I intend to add Markus patches with the conversion from the
> >>> DocBook to rst, plus the flat-table extension logic.
> >>>
> >>> Then, I'll work to manually fix what's needed and I'll add the
> >>> automation scripting logic that we have at the DocBook Makefile
> >>> to work with the new media rst files.
> >>>
> >>> Lastly, once the job's done, I'll drop Documentation/DocBook/media.
> >>>
> >>> Markus,
> >>>
> >>> With that regards, could you please send the patches to me?
> >>
> >> Yes. What is your timeline ... is it OK if I send you a patch in the
> >> next two weeks? ... first I wan't to finish my other work / I'am just
> >> back from holiday .. a lot of work to do :-o
> >
> > Hi Markus,
> >
> > I'm wanting to start working on it next week, if possible.
> >
> > I created an experimental branch on my tree for such work, where
> > I'm merging from both Jon's doc-next tree and from media tree at:
> > https://git.linuxtv.org//mchehab/experimental.git/log/?h=docs-next
> >
> > Could you please rebase your work with the media DocBook and with
> > the flat-table support to be on the top of it?
> >
> > Thanks!
> > Mauro
>
> Hi Mauro,
>
> sorry for my late reply, I finished the man-page builder last weekend.
>
> > I'm merging from both Jon's doc-next tree and from media tree
>
> Currently I'am working on a rebase on top of the Jon's docs-next branch
> (with "s" in "docs-" / think it was only a typo).
>
> Hopefully I get this done in the next 2 days.
>
> I will send a pull request when I'am finished / thanks for your
> patience until then.

Ok!

Thanks for your work!

Regards,
Mauro