Re: [PATCH] Documentation: kcsan: fix "Plain Accesses and Data Races" URL in kcsan.rst

[Ignacio Encinas Rubio <ignacio@iencinas.com>]

On 15/3/25 3:41, Akira Yokosawa wrote:
> This might be something Jon would like to keep secret, but ...
> 
> See the message and the thread it belongs at:
> 
>     https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/Pine.LNX.4.44L0.1907310947340.1497-100000@iolanthe.rowland.org/
> 
> It happened in 2019 responding to Mauro's attempt to conversion of
> LKMM docs.
> 
> I haven't see any change in sentiment among LKMM maintainers since.

Thanks for the information!

> Your way forward would be to keep those .txt files *pure plain text"
> and to convert them on-the-fly into reST.  Of course only if such an
> effort sounds worthwhile to you.

With this you mean producing a .rst from the original .txt file using an 
script before building the documentation, right? I'm not sure how hard 
this is, but I can look into it.

> Another approach might be to include those docs literally.
> Similar approach has applied to
> 
>     Documentation/
> 	atomic_t.txt
> 	atomic_bitops.txt
>         memory-barriers.txt

Right, I got to [1]. 

It looks like there are several options here:

  A) Include the text files like in [1]
  B) Explore the "on-the-fly" translation
  C) Do A) and then B)

Does any of the above sound good, Jon?

Thank you both for your time

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220927160559.97154-7-corbet@lwn.net/