On 08/14/2017 09:15 AM, Jani Nikula wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Aug 2017, Randy Dunlap <rdun...@infradead.org> wrote:
>> On 08/13/2017 11:46 PM, Markus Heiser wrote:
>>> Hi Randy,
>>>
>>>> Am 13.08.2017 um 19:29 schrieb Randy Dunlap <rdun...@infradead.org>:
>>>> Lots of ERRORs where a doc comment is of the form GPP_ (ending with a '_'):
>>>>
>>>> ../block/bio.c:404: ERROR: Unknown target name: "gfp".
>>>
>>> Yes, this is a conflict since comments are reST Markup.
>>>
>>>  https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/doc-guide/kernel-doc.html
>>>
>>> In sources we like to use FOO_ (ending with a '_'), which is a
>>> hyperlink markup in reST:
>>>
>>>  http://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/stable/rest.html#hyperlinks
>>>
>>> The only solution I see is to replace FOO_ with ``FOO_``
>>
>> I guess that's OK in doc files, but most of these comments are in source 
>> files
>> and requiring ``xyz_`` there is not nice.
> 
> I assume very few actual symbols end in underscore, and this is more of
> a question of referencing a group of FOO_ prefixed symbols. In these
> cases, I prefer using FOO_* as it both avoids the problem and makes
> perfect sense in plain text.

Sure, that sounds good to me also.


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~Randy
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