On 08/13/2015 08:20 PM, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > On Thu, 13 Aug 2015 20:09:35 -0300 > Danilo Cesar Lemes de Paula <danilo.cesar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Did you find time to take a look on this? > > No. Just when I thought things couldn't get crazier, my laptop died. > > https://plus.google.com/+JonathanCorbet/posts/FBHp48dPb95 > > What spare time I had has been dedicated to recovering from that in time > to give my talk next week. Those evil machines... =) > >> I understand that there's some discussion behind the curtains regarding >> the markdown support, but the cross-reference-hyperlink patch is also in >> the same patch series. It doesn't change any text in the docbook unless >> there's really a cross-reference link to it. Different from the markdown >> support (when people start to use markdown to write docs it will be hard >> to go back), the cross-link stuff doesn't require/create any change to >> current documentation, it is pretty safe to use. >> >> Would you mind to share your plans about this? > > No behind-the-curtains discussions happening, or, let's say, if there > are, I've not been invited either. I meant the Kernel summit mailing list, but looks like that thread died even before my patches. > > I'd like to get back to the cross-reference stuff. Last I tried, it > failed while building the media docs; have you been able to look at > that? I did, and I didn't find anything. Media API already spits lots of warnings without my patch. I did send those warnings to a file and count them. My patch produces the same amount of warnings as the original branch. I did, however, use a clean build to test that. Daniel Vetter complained that the Documentation was being rebuilt all the time, something wrong with the dependencies. I did fix that in v2. Maybe the errors you got were related to it? > > Longer term, as you may know from the kernel summit discussions, I'd > really like to get rid of a lot of the XML gunk and put in something more > straightforward, be it based on Markdown or something else. Doing that, > however, requires that I find the time to implement something that's > convincingly better. It may happen soon, but I sure can't guarantee it. > > Meanwhile, I think it would be a horrible mistake to delay useful work > because I have a gleam in my eye to do something different one of these > years, so I'll not do that. I fully expect to merge all of the stuff > you've done, I just need to have a good look at it and test it out a > bit. As I said before, I can't promise that for the 4.3 merge window, > but I'll try. > > Apologies, No need to apologize, just wanted to know what was going on. Danilo Cesar _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
