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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] docs: discourage use of list tables
Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2022 23:51:42 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YdP8jsgFcpugA7IO@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r19oxx87.fsf@meer.lwn.net>

On Mon, Jan 03, 2022 at 03:36:56PM -0700, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> Our documentation encourages the use of list-table formats, but that advice
> runs counter to the objective of keeping the plain-text documentation as
> useful and readable as possible.  Turn that advice around the other way so
> that people don't keep adding these tables.

Thanks!

Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

      parent reply	other threads:[~2022-01-04  7:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-01-03 22:36 Jonathan Corbet
2022-01-03 23:01 ` Randy Dunlap
2022-01-04  7:51 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]

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