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From: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
To: Matteo Croce <technoboy85@gmail.com>
Cc: "G. Branden Robinson" <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>,
	 linux-man@vger.kernel.org, Matteo Croce <teknoraver@meta.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] proc.5: document 'subset' mount option.
Date: Tue, 14 May 2024 22:41:05 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <p64gkg7kmeucfprmmkofwzkg4vt76kwr4p6fpqc6dks75o3hzp@rrum4fdfa5ny> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFnufp1U8Tp2hpgAPi-aEhXdVVoUqeZdqbHd1RbYiu_OqQRLEA@mail.gmail.com>

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On Tue, May 14, 2024 at 10:25:50PM GMT, Matteo Croce wrote:
> Il giorno mar 14 mag 2024 alle ore 22:15 G. Branden Robinson
> <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com> ha scritto:
> >
> > Hi Alex,
> >
> > At 2024-05-14T21:54:42+0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> > > > +.BR subset "=\fBpid\fP (since Linux 5.8)"
> > >
> > > This can be simplified as:
> > >
> > > .BR subset = pid " (since Linux 5.8)"
> >
> > It appears to me that all of the equals signs in mount options in this
> > page should be bold.  They are literal, after all...
> >
> > So this would simplify further to:
> >
> > .BR subset=pid " (since Linux 5.8)"
> >
> > ...which might look almost non-mystical to man(7) novices.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Branden
> 
> Could be, but that could be done all in once in a further refactor, I
> don't want to change the document style within this change.

Agree; a separate patch is better for that refactor.

And yep, the = is better as bold, since it's also literal.

Have a lovely night!
Alex

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      reply	other threads:[~2024-05-14 20:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-05-14 19:21 [PATCH v2] proc.5: document 'subset' mount option technoboy85
2024-05-14 19:54 ` Alejandro Colomar
2024-05-14 20:15   ` G. Branden Robinson
2024-05-14 20:25     ` Matteo Croce
2024-05-14 20:41       ` Alejandro Colomar [this message]

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