[PATCH 5/5] drm: Enable markdown^Wasciidoc for gpu.tmpl

[Jani Nikula]

On Tue, 12 Jan 2016, Jonathan Corbet <corbet at lwn.net> wrote:
> In my mind, there's clearly no good that can come from (further) delaying
> something that works in favor of an "it would be nice" that may never
> even exist.  So I'm currently thinking that I'll pull this into the docs
> tree once the merge window is done, with the plan to push it for 4.6.
> Then we can see if anybody screams.

Must... resist... urge to bikeshed about the choice of markup...

> The build-time increase is painful in the extreme - about a factor of
> three for a -j1 build, and that's with only one file using the feature.
> It feels wrong, somehow, for the docs build to take longer than building
> the kernel itself.  Can we do something about that?

"Holy big-O, batman. Asciidoc appears to be quadractically slow." [1]

Fortunately the same quote lead me to asciidoctor [2], which was maybe
twice as fast as asciidoc. An improvement, but could be much better.

BR,
Jani.


[1] https://twitter.com/marijnjh/status/473935469676216321
[2] http://asciidoctor.org/docs/asciidoc-asciidoctor-diffs/


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Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Technology Center