Re: [PATCH v2 08/29] docs: filesystems: convert configfs.txt to ReST

From: Peter Lister
Date: Fri Apr 24 2020 - 13:29:38 EST


On 21/04/2020 18:23, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
It wasn't entirely uncommon, but that's not really the point. The
Problem is all the weird ".." or "::" annotations that really kill
the flow, or things like "|copy|" that have no reason to exist.

You aren't supposed to read REST documentation files - as opposed to kerneldoc comments in the C source - any more than you read HTML.

[ Exactly what should or should not be in C source kerneldoc is another matter. ]

Developers are used to reading plain ol' text files for quick reference. But there is no make target to generate the text files.

Can we create a method to build text *output* files?