Re: [External] linux-next: build failure after merge of the pm tree

From: Mark Pearson
Date: Wed Dec 09 2020 - 10:09:47 EST


Hi Jon,

On 09/12/2020 09:33, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Dec 2020 08:56:31 -0500 Mark Pearson
> <markpearson@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> I do see: WARNING: document isn't included in any toctree but I
>> think this is benign - I believe I'm getting it just because I
>> converted the file to .rst (as requested by Andy Shevchenko). If
>> this is important and needs to be addressed urgently as well let me
>> know.
>
> Normally this is solved by adding the newly created document to the
> index.rst file in the same directory.
>
> There isn't one in Documentation/ABI/testing, though; in fact, there
> are no RST files there. Files in Documentation/ABI are in a special
> format that is processed into RST during the docs build. If we want
> to add information outside of any specific ABI entry there, we're
> going to have to decide how we want to do that. It may well be,
> though, that the introductory information just belongs in the admin
> guide instead.
>

Should I just revert this file to plain text format?

I converted it to rst (as was requested) but I'm wondering if I'm just
causing a bunch of headaches and people are going to be cursing the one
weird random rst file in that directory going forwards :)

Mark