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Re: Missing File REPORTING-BUGS In Linux Kernel.

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On 05/08/17 05:30, Keith Christian wrote:
> 
> 
>     In v4.10, the file was moved (and renamed and edited) to
>     "Documentation/admin-guide/reporting-bugs.rst".
> 
>     I suppose that some Debian install script needs to be updated.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Kernel hackers,
> 
> Thanks for all the work over the years on the kernel.  My very first post to the list (as a long time reader) is a question:
> 
> Were other plain text files changed to .rst as well?

[adding linux-doc mailing list]


Quite a number have been changed.

> Is there a link to the discussion for changing to .rst?

I don't recall much discussion.  There may have been some on the linux-doc
mailing list.

As with many things that are kernel-related, it depends a lot on who is
doing the work and their choices and decisions.

> There is a convention for keeping essential documentation in a simple format that can be read without additional processing.  Where are we going with this?

.rst files are still readable with an editor or 'more' etc.

-- 
~Randy

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Missing File REPORTING-BUGS In Linux Kernel. Anil Nair <anilcoll90@gmail.com> - 2017-05-08 04:20 +0200
  Re: Missing File REPORTING-BUGS In Linux Kernel. Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> - 2017-05-08 05:00 +0200
    Re: Missing File REPORTING-BUGS In Linux Kernel. Keith Christian <keith1christian@gmail.com> - 2017-05-08 15:40 +0200
    Re: Missing File REPORTING-BUGS In Linux Kernel. Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> - 2017-05-08 17:30 +0200
      Re: Missing File REPORTING-BUGS In Linux Kernel. Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com> - 2017-05-08 18:00 +0200
        Re: Missing File REPORTING-BUGS In Linux Kernel. Keith Christian <keith1christian@gmail.com> - 2017-05-09 00:00 +0200
        Re: Missing File REPORTING-BUGS In Linux Kernel. Andrew Donnellan <andrew.donnellan@au1.ibm.com> - 2017-05-09 02:40 +0200

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