On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 5:02 PM, Daniel Vetter <daniel@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, May 04, 2016 at 08:57:13AM -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote: >> On Wed, 4 May 2016 16:18:27 +0200 >> Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> > > I'd really like to converge on the markup question, so that we can start >> > > using all the cool stuff with impunity in gpu documentations. >> > >> > Aside: If we decide this now I could send in a pull request for the >> > rst/sphinx kernel-doc support still for 4.7 (based upon the minimal >> > markdown/asciidoc code I still have). That would be really awesome ... >> >> Sorry for my relative absence...I'm still busy dealing with bureaucracy >> an ocean away from home. I hope to begin emerging from this mess in the >> near future. >> >> So ... there's the code you have, the work I (+Jani) did, and the work >> Markus has done. Which would you have me push into 4.7? >> >> The sphinx/rst approach does seem, to me, to be the right one, with the >> existing DocBook structure remaining in place for those who want/need >> it. I'm inclined toward my stuff as a base to work with, obviously :) But >> it's hackish at best and needs a lot of cleaning up. It's a proof of >> concept, but it's hardly finished (one might say it's barely begun...) >> >> In the end, I guess, I feel that anything we might try to push for 4.7 is >> going to look rushed and not ready, and Linus might react accordingly. >> I'd be more comfortable aiming for 4.8. I *will* have more time to focus >> on things in that time frame... I suspect you're pretty well fed up with >> this stuff being pushed back, and rightly so. All I can do is apologize. >> >> That said, if you do think there's something out there that is good >> enough to consider pushing in a week or two, do tell and we can all take >> a look. > > Well I'd just have taken the asciidoc hacks I have currently in my > topic/kerneldoc branch, converted to sphinx and looked how it fares. It > should be fairly minimal, and I think the first step we want to do for the > long-term plan. I hope I can ready something, and then we can look whether > it's rushed for 4.7 or not. Ok, discussed this a bit more with Jani on IRC and he really doesn't like the old design of that branch (it calls the converter for every kerneldoc comment). So I guess nothing rushed for 4.7, but hopefully something for 4.8. -Daniel -- Daniel Vetter Software Engineer, Intel Corporation +41 (0) 79 365 57 48 - http://blog.ffwll.ch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
