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Date:   Tue, 11 May 2021 19:48:18 +0100
From:   Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To:     Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] docs: networking: device_drivers: fix bad usage of
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On Tue, May 11, 2021 at 12:24:52PM -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> writes:
> 
> >> -monitoring tools such as ifstat or sar –n DEV [interval] [number of samples]
> >> +monitoring tools such as `ifstat` or `sar -n DEV [interval] [number of samples]`
> >
> > ...
> >
> >>  For example: min_rate 1Gbit 3Gbit: Verify bandwidth limit using network
> >> -monitoring tools such as ifstat or sar –n DEV [interval] [number of samples]
> >> +monitoring tools such as ``ifstat`` or ``sar -n DEV [interval] [number of samples]``
> >
> > Is there a difference between ` and `` ? Does it make sense to be
> > consistent?
> 
> This is `just weird quotes`

umm ... `this` is supposed to be "interpreted text"
https://docutils.sourceforge.io/docs/ref/rst/restructuredtext.html#inline-markup

Maybe we don't actually interpret it.

> This is ``literal text`` set in monospace in processed output.
> 
> There is a certain tension between those who want to see liberal use of
> literal-text markup, and those who would rather have less markup in the
> text overall; certainly, it's better not to go totally nuts with it.

I really appreciate the work you did to reduce the amount of
markup that's needed!