On Thu, 17 Mar 2022 07:33:56 -0600,
Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> Hi Jon,
>>
>> On Wed, 16 Mar 2022 15:07:10 -0600
>> Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> I have applied this version.
>>
>> Jon, I think you missed Peter'z (implied) Nak on this conversion.
>>
>> Quote from Peter's message [1]:
>>
>>> As I'm sure you're aware, I'd *love* to convert the whole lot to plain
>>> text again :-)
>>>
>>> People, throughout the ages, have been able to read plain text, I don't
>>> see why it should be made more difficult than that.
>>
>> I'd recommend you to drop this from docs-next for now.
>> I think this should go through -tip.
>
> I interpreted Peter's response differently. I invited him to express
> his opposition to *this patch* and he didn't do that. As we know, Peter
> does not suffer from an inability to express his thoughts explicitly and
> succinctly; "implied NAK" is not normally his way.
I see. You know Peter much better than I.
Probably my interpretation was too pessimistic. ;-)
>
> Or are you saying that I should follow his message to the letter and
> back out the entire RST conversion? :)
I know it is _not_ one of the options we can pursue at this stage of
kernel-doc. It's too late. Furthermore, If it stayed plaintext,
I could not have any chance of improving PDF docs. There remains
plenty of rooms!
Thanks, Akira
>
> jon
