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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 7/7] docs: put atomic*.txt and memory-barriers.txt into
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On 9/24/22 20:18, Bagas Sanjaya wrote:
> On 9/23/22 20:39, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
>>> Shouldn't warning like "This documentation isn't in RST format and included
>>> as literal block" be added?
>>
>> Why?  Who needs that information and what will they do with it?
> 
> At least readers will not be surprised with the anomaly...
> 
> But anyway, for consistency, I'd like to see these *.txt docs be converted
> to proper RST.

I'm pretty sure that Jonathan knows that those files' owner(s) want them
to remain in txt format.

-- 
~Randy