Re: [PATCH V3 13/19] rtla: Add Documentation

[Daniel Bristot de Oliveira]

On 10/19/21 15:21, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Oct 2021 14:56:15 +0200
> Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> I am not a document format specialist, neither have a strong opinion on this, so
>> suggestions are welcome. I used this format as a suggestion from steven, it is
>> also similar to what we have on perf...
> 
> My suggestion came from not knowing that the man pages were going to live
> in the kernel Documentation tree ;-)

That is true!

Question, should we mode these files to Documentation/trace/ ?

>>
>> The idea here is to create a set of man pages. I saw that it is possible to
>> create man pages using Sphinx, but there are so many options that it is hard to
>> get started...
>>
>> I also noticed that bpftools uses .rst files, but uses rst2man to convert the files.
>>
>> Converting the current files to .rst is easy.
>>
>> So, could give me some directions on what you think would be the best way to
>> create this set of man pages?
>>
>> A link to a project that creates a set of man pages using Sphinx using a
>> Makefile would be a plus :-).
> 
> 
> If everyone is OK with converting to .rst and using rst2man I'm fine with
> that.

+1

-- Daniel

> -- Steve
>