[PATCH v2 09/11] docs: Fix some broken references
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
mchehab+samsung at kernel.org
Wed May 9 19:41:53 UTC 2018
Em Wed, 9 May 2018 15:11:07 -0400 (EDT)
Alan Stern <stern at rowland.harvard.edu> escreveu:
> On Wed, 9 May 2018, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
>
> > Em Wed, 9 May 2018 19:15:01 +0200
> > Andrea Parri <parri.andrea at gmail.com> escreveu:
>
> > > > tools/memory-model/README | 10 +++++-----
> > >
> > > As mentioned in the previous thread, I am for keeping the current
> > > references: the REAMDE is listing the doc files, as well as other
> > > files in tools/memory-model/, relatively to that directory.
> >
> > Yeah, at least this hunk deserves some rework, as now some
> > references are Documentation/.../foo, while others are just
> > bar.
> >
> > As on (almost) all other places (except for tools/memory-model/README),
> > the references are always from the main directory, I would make all
> > patches there also relative to main dir. If you're afraid of
> > not being too clearer, we could prefix all of them with something
> > like:
> >
> > ${LINUX}/tools/memory-model/...
> >
> > just like some DT binding files do:
> >
> > Documentation/devicetree/bindings/sound/audio-graph-card.txt:see ${LINUX}/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/graph.txt
> >
> > A bonus of doing that is that the broken reference detect script can
> > keep parsing it without changes (well, it wouldn't be hard to make
> > it also accept a relative file, but doing that just due to
> > tools/memory-model/README seems overkill).
> >
> > Another advantage is that it would allow to easily add references
> > there from the main kernel Documentation, if needed in the future,
> > without messing with local x non-local relative namespace.
>
> How about changing the relative references so that something like
> Documentation/recipes.txt becomes ./Documentation/recipes.txt?
Sounds a good idea to me. Andrea?
Thanks,
Mauro
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