[Linux-kernel-mentees] [PATCH][RESEND] docs: filesystems: sysfs: convert sysfs.txt to reST

Jaskaran Singh jaskaransingh7654321 at gmail.com
Wed Nov 13 07:30:36 UTC 2019


On Tue, 2019-11-12 at 10:04 -0700, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> On Sat, 09 Nov 2019 18:36:16 +0530
> Jaskaran Singh <jaskaransingh7654321 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > > At a bare minimum, an effort like this needs to put a big
> > > flashing
> > > warning
> > > at the top of the file.  But it would be soooooo much better to
> > > actually
> > > update the content as well.
> > > 
> > > The best way to do that would be to annotate the source with
> > > proper
> > > kerneldoc comments, then pull them into the documentation rather
> > > than
> > > repeating the information here.  Is there any chance you might be
> > > up
> > > for
> > > taking on a task like this?
> > >   
> > 
> > Sure! I'll send the documentation patch(es) followed by a v2 for
> > this
> > patch.
> 
> Great.  As an alternative, if you like, redo the current patch with
> the
> other suggested fixes and a "this is obsolete" warning at the
> top.  Then,
> after the subsequent improvements land, that warning can eventually
> be
> removed again.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> jon

Hopefully I can get the kernel-doc comments right. If not, I'll go with
the alternative :)

Cheers,
Jaskaran.



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