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authorMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>2016-09-19 13:07:47 +0200
committerJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>2016-09-21 02:37:01 +0200
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Documentation/CodingStyle: use the .. note:: markup where needed
There are two places there where there are notes that should be highlighted. So, use the ReST note markup for such texts. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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@@ -333,9 +333,11 @@ useful only for:
Example: ``pte_t`` etc. opaque objects that you can only access using
the proper accessor functions.
- NOTE! Opaqueness and ``accessor functions`` are not good in themselves.
- The reason we have them for things like pte_t etc. is that there
- really is absolutely **zero** portably accessible information there.
+ .. note::
+
+ Opaqueness and ``accessor functions`` are not good in themselves.
+ The reason we have them for things like pte_t etc. is that there
+ really is absolutely **zero** portably accessible information there.
(b) Clear integer types, where the abstraction **helps** avoid confusion
whether it is ``int`` or ``long``.
@@ -343,8 +345,10 @@ useful only for:
u8/u16/u32 are perfectly fine typedefs, although they fit into
category (d) better than here.
- NOTE! Again - there needs to be a **reason** for this. If something is
- ``unsigned long``, then there's no reason to do
+ .. note::
+
+ Again - there needs to be a **reason** for this. If something is
+ ``unsigned long``, then there's no reason to do
typedef unsigned long myflags_t;