Re: [PATCH v2 09/11] docs: Fix some broken references

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On Wed, 9 May 2018, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:

> Em Wed, 9 May 2018 19:15:01 +0200
> Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@xxxxxxxxx> escreveu:

> > >  tools/memory-model/README                     | 10 +++++-----  
> > 
> > As mentioned in the previous thread, I am for keeping the current
> > references: the REAMDE is listing the doc files, as well as other
> > files in tools/memory-model/, relatively to that directory.
> 
> Yeah, at least this hunk deserves some rework, as now some
> references are Documentation/.../foo, while others are just
> bar.
> 
> As on (almost) all other places (except for tools/memory-model/README),
> the references are always from the main directory, I would make all
> patches there also relative to main dir. If you're afraid of
> not being too clearer, we could prefix all of them with something
> like:
> 
> 	${LINUX}/tools/memory-model/...
> 
> just like some DT binding files do:
> 
> 	Documentation/devicetree/bindings/sound/audio-graph-card.txt:see ${LINUX}/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/graph.txt
> 
> A bonus of doing that is that the broken reference detect script can
> keep parsing it without changes (well, it wouldn't be hard to make
> it also accept a relative file, but doing that just due to 
> tools/memory-model/README seems overkill).
> 
> Another advantage is that it would allow to easily add references
> there from the main kernel Documentation, if needed in the future,
> without messing with local x non-local relative namespace.

How about changing the relative references so that something like
Documentation/recipes.txt becomes ./Documentation/recipes.txt?

Alan Stern

_______________________________________________
dri-devel mailing list
dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel




[Index of Archives]     [Linux DRI Users]     [Linux Intel Graphics]     [Linux USB Devel]     [Video for Linux]     [Linux Audio Users]     [Yosemite News]     [Linux Kernel]     [Linux SCSI]     [XFree86]     [Linux USB Devel]     [Video for Linux]     [Linux Audio Users]     [Linux Kernel]     [Linux SCSI]     [XFree86]
  Powered by Linux