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On 21/04/2020 18:23, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> It wasn't entirely uncommon, but that's not really the point.  The
> Problem is all the weird ".." or "::" annotations that really kill
> the flow, or things like "|copy|" that have no reason to exist.

You aren't supposed to read REST documentation files - as opposed to 
kerneldoc comments in the C source - any more than you read HTML.

[ Exactly what should or should not be in C source kerneldoc is another 
matter. ]

Developers are used to reading plain ol' text files for quick reference. 
But there is no make target to generate the text files.

Can we create a method to build text *output* files?