Re: [PATCH 12/14] doc-rst: add ABI documentation to the admin-guide book

[Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@darmarit.de>]

Am 14.06.19 um 15:42 schrieb Jani Nikula:
> On Thu, 13 Jun 2019, Mauro Carvalho Chehab<mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>  wrote:
>> From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab<mchehab@s-opensource.com>
>>
>> As we don't want a generic Sphinx extension to execute commands,
>> change the one proposed to Markus to call the abi_book.pl
>> script.
>>
>> Use a script to parse the Documentation/ABI directory and output
>> it at the admin-guide.
> We had a legacy kernel-doc perl script so we used that instead of
> rewriting it in python. Just to keep it bug-for-bug compatible with the
> past. That was the only reason.
> 
> I see absolutely zero reason to add a new perl monstrosity with a python
> extension to call it. All of this could be better done in python,
> directly.
> 
> Please don't complicate the documentation build. I know you know we all
> worked hard to take apart the old DocBook Rube Goldberg machine to
> replace it with Sphinx. Please don't turn the Sphinx build to another
> complicated mess.
> 
> My strong preferences are, in this order:
> 
> 1) Convert the ABI documentation to reStructuredText
> 
> 2) Have the python extension read the ABI files directly, without an
>     extra pipeline.
> 

I agree with Jani. No matter how the decision ends, since I can't help here, I'd 
rather not show up in the copyright.

   -- Markus --