On Fri, 04 Apr 2025 11:42:54 -0600
Jonathan Corbet <cor...@lwn.net> wrote:

> Jonathan Cameron <jonathan.came...@huawei.com> writes:
> 
> > On Fri, 04 Apr 2025 11:37:28 -0400
> > Nícolas F. R. A. Prado <nfrapr...@collabora.com> wrote:
> >  
> >> Given that the automarkup Sphinx plugin cross-references
> >> "Documentation/*.rst" strings in the text to the corresponding
> >> documents, surrounding those strings with the literal markup (``) not
> >> only adds unnecessary markup in the source files, but actually prevents
> >> the automatic cross-referencing to happen (as it doesn't happen in
> >> literal blocks).
> >> 
> >> Remove all the occurrences of the literal markup in
> >> "Documentation/*.rst" paths, except when the actual source file is being
> >> referred. Also change the surrounding text when needed so it reads well
> >> both in the source and the web page (eg. 'see file Doc...' -> 'see
> >> Doc...').
> >> 
> >> Signed-off-by: Nícolas F. R. A. Prado <nfrapr...@collabora.com>
> >> ---
> >>  Documentation/admin-guide/mm/numa_memory_policy.rst       | 2 +-
> >>  Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst              | 2 +-
> >>  Documentation/driver-api/dmaengine/client.rst             | 2 +-
> >>  Documentation/driver-api/nvdimm/security.rst              | 2 +-
> >>  Documentation/filesystems/fscrypt.rst                     | 4 ++--
> >>  Documentation/iio/adis16475.rst                           | 4 ++--
> >>  Documentation/iio/adis16480.rst                           | 4 ++--
> >>  Documentation/iio/adis16550.rst                           | 4 ++--
> >>  Documentation/iio/adxl380.rst                             | 4 ++--  
> >
> > Split patch up by subsystem would be a good thing here as we may
> > get other changes to these docs during the cycle and resulting
> > merge conflicts if this all goes in as one patch.  
> 
> That seems like a way to add a significant amount of pain to a basic
> (but indeed useful) cleanup patch like this.  If the relevant
> maintainers insist on it then that's how it has to be done, but I bet I
> could just take the whole thing through docs with almost no trouble.
> 
hmm.  I'll go with maybe. Let's cross fingers then.

Acked-by: Jonathan Cameron <jonathan.came...@huawei.com>

> jon


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