Hello Jonathan and Marco, On Fri, Dec 17, 2021 at 4:45 AM Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > Marco Elver <elver@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > In response to the other email: Adding binary blobs just creates > > problems, for comparing different versions, and general bloating the > > whole repo, where better alternatives exist. > > > > I suppose an ASCII diagram is a bit primitive. :-) > > > > However, SVG files on the other hand are not binary blobs, they are > > text-markup based (XML), and e.g. diffing them often provides useful > > information about what changed. SVG also has the benefit of being > > vector graphics, and not being limited to one resolution. > > > > Looking at the diagram you added, I think this can easily be turned > > into vector graphics, and most likely will not use up 24KiB as a > > result. > > I agree with all of this; we shouldn't be adding binary images to the > docs, and we've decided at other times that SVG is generally the best > compromise there. > I did not realize that .SVG is in XML format and preferred over .PNG. Thanks for pointing this out. I replaced .SVG with .PNG. > Thanks, Marco, for pointing this out and producing an alternative. > A big thanks to Marco for creating this .SVG file for the documentation :-) > Once this is all settled, do you want it to go through the docs tree? > Yeah! that's the plan. > jon Thanks, Harinder Singh
