From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from casper.infradead.org (casper.infradead.org [90.155.50.34]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8B8863AB262; Mon, 21 Sep 2026 19:36:45 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=90.155.50.34 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1790019408; cv=none; b=K5fnA902bnQYgpbrR81N+91OiOGCtqMu2zvM2ZN+NXxcEj166fT2jReQtO8EQuslvmUnqGrEH/PTuDHvBk4iH4awfb0VHQ89tO2MO5dNxOWkgMKb3XcOp319SLJHgcTpkuFh0PCkAsUKfkS7KNr8sUIX1jU9Q0XUrS7/AWZmBGc= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1790019408; c=relaxed/simple; bh=p+hsRbtggipGRlvawCSQiuTfGXhSi7fAKUWvu52k1HE=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=bMmmwm79ReHOti960nZi+aX+A9R5waRjSEdig8UAfbuL37Gvj9Zk9pTV2b199pBZcdmE4arLP4G26tf53M0/BbYPFh8Vn/DvsxMQd/RglSptNrOwX4RaeiWhTTtAWGtmwP6TckX4baFej3/PmbmVGgfB8ULrwtI1ht6l7HvbCAc= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=infradead.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=infradead.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=infradead.org header.i=@infradead.org header.b=ksMNhp1C; arc=none smtp.client-ip=90.155.50.34 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=infradead.org Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=infradead.org Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=infradead.org header.i=@infradead.org header.b="ksMNhp1C" DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=infradead.org; s=casper.20170209; h=In-Reply-To:Content-Type:MIME-Version: References:Message-ID:Subject:Cc:To:From:Date:Sender:Reply-To: Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-ID:Content-Description; bh=0AEGmw/epH5jwYb4WUwW6Xy4DepIZNHBEAJLwk3xrWA=; b=ksMNhp1CVf86ZnALhuXNxYU1eo T24hDcDfTMjwEZdwpGkD1Td5mu0X4noIcvr/ZFilWP0oAoSrJv+FEtcIBy+XVRFz+NT3ZOqGQcBcO 1I0oKSEKwdbs9yK88lY8Ck2xad2s9B/vJDLUADhkU9S+zzwMXy4fhgUanX1XhdMxmwpY7hrCJuHZj LbN3baTR23iLoknTPKdYdUiqeFfQHm1CCqbDmEx+RGQQehp+BIL6QRNe5KZgpuSu7b5vSiyr1RbIi iQCs2f6MOWLGCtOcL5DfWQVUpAdrBMLeytcp+jAQ7rlyCDawnqOZ+wrZdHdxjuAwtqh8XPFfz+bOp g0kMTJWw==; Received: from willy by casper.infradead.org with local (Exim 4.99.1 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1x8jog-000000059Ey-3lBx; Mon, 21 Sep 2026 19:36:42 +0000 Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2026 20:36:42 +0100 From: Matthew Wilcox To: Randy Dunlap Cc: Osman Ahmadzai , Jonathan Corbet , linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, nathan@kernel.org, nsc@kernel.org, apw@canonical.com, joe@perches.com, tglx@kernel.org, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] README: rename to README.rst and make the doc references links Message-ID: References: <20260921050038.76985-1-osmanahmadxai@gmail.com> <20260921070556.6909-1-osmanahmadxai@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: On Mon, Sep 21, 2026 at 12:24:08PM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote: > Hi, > > On 9/21/26 12:05 AM, Osman Ahmadzai wrote: > > The README points at some sixty files in the tree, but it has no > > extension, so it shows up as plain text and none of those paths can be > > followed. You have to go and find each one by hand. > > > > The content has always been reStructuredText - it uses reST section > > syntax for its headings - so give it the extension to match, and wrap > > each in-tree reference in an anonymous hyperlink whose link text is the > > path itself. The rendered text is byte-for-byte what it was before; only > > What causes README.rst to be rendered? Is it named README.html? > I don't see it being rendered on a clean 'make htmldocs' build. I believe this is some github thing. There's something very strange about the diff being sent. For some reason it shows as a delete + create rather than as a rename + changes. That makes it hard to review. Please investigate and fix. Also the commit message was not revised to match what v2 actually does.