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docs: Clean up bare :: lines 

Mauro's patch set introduced some bare :: lines; these can be represented
by a double colon at the end of the preceding text line.  The result looks
a little less weird and is less verbose.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
steinar/wifi_calib_4_9_kernel
Jonathan Corbet 2016-09-20 18:46:36 -06:00
parent 7a71a8095b
commit 1b49ecf2f3
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@ -212,9 +212,7 @@ Intel IA32 microcode
A driver has been added to allow updating of Intel IA32 microcode,
accessible as a normal (misc) character device. If you are not using
udev you may need to:
::
udev you may need to::
mkdir /dev/cpu
mknod /dev/cpu/microcode c 10 184
@ -260,9 +258,7 @@ enable it to operate over diverse media layers. If you use PPP,
upgrade pppd to at least 2.4.0.
If you are not using udev, you must have the device file /dev/ppp
which can be made by:
::
which can be made by::
mknod /dev/ppp c 108 0
@ -294,9 +290,7 @@ appropriate export information to the kernel. This removes the
dependency on ``rmtab`` and means that the kernel only needs to know about
currently active clients.
To enable this new functionality, you need to:
::
To enable this new functionality, you need to::
mount -t nfsd nfsd /proc/fs/nfsd

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@ -167,9 +167,7 @@ ReStructuredText markups (ReST), like this one. This includes a
full description of the in-kernel API, and rules on how to handle
locking properly.
All such documents can be generated as PDF or HTML by running:
::
All such documents can be generated as PDF or HTML by running::
make pdfdocs
make htmldocs
@ -177,9 +175,7 @@ All such documents can be generated as PDF or HTML by running:
respectively from the main kernel source directory.
The documents that uses ReST markup will be generated at Documentation/output.
They can also be generated on LaTeX and ePub formats with:
::
They can also be generated on LaTeX and ePub formats with::
make latexdocs
make epubdocs
@ -187,9 +183,7 @@ They can also be generated on LaTeX and ePub formats with:
Currently, there are some documents written on DocBook that are in
the process of conversion to ReST. Such documents will be created in the
Documentation/DocBook/ directory and can be generated also as
Postscript or man pages by running:
::
Postscript or man pages by running::
make psdocs
make mandocs

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Documentation/applying-patches.txt
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@ -54,15 +54,11 @@ in the patch file when applying it (the ``-p1`` argument to ``patch`` does
this).
To revert a previously applied patch, use the -R argument to patch.
So, if you applied a patch like this:
::
So, if you applied a patch like this::
patch -p1 < ../patch-x.y.z
You can revert (undo) it like this:
::
You can revert (undo) it like this::
patch -R -p1 < ../patch-x.y.z
@ -74,9 +70,7 @@ This (as usual with Linux and other UNIX like operating systems) can be
done in several different ways.
In all the examples below I feed the file (in uncompressed form) to patch
via stdin using the following syntax:
::
via stdin using the following syntax::
patch -p1 < path/to/patch-x.y.z
@ -85,26 +79,20 @@ know of more than one way to use patch, then you can stop reading this
section here.
Patch can also get the name of the file to use via the -i argument, like
this:
::
this::
patch -p1 -i path/to/patch-x.y.z
If your patch file is compressed with gzip or xz and you don't want to
uncompress it before applying it, then you can feed it to patch like this
instead:
::
instead::
xzcat path/to/patch-x.y.z.xz | patch -p1
bzcat path/to/patch-x.y.z.gz | patch -p1
If you wish to uncompress the patch file by hand first before applying it
(what I assume you've done in the examples below), then you simply run
gunzip or xz on the file -- like this:
::
gunzip or xz on the file -- like this::
gunzip patch-x.y.z.gz
xz -d patch-x.y.z.xz
@ -232,9 +220,7 @@ step. The -z flag to interdiff will even let you feed it patches in gzip or
bzip2 compressed form directly without the use of zcat or bzcat or manual
decompression.
Here's how you'd go from 4.7.2 to 4.7.3 in a single step:
::
Here's how you'd go from 4.7.2 to 4.7.3 in a single step::
interdiff -z ../patch-4.7.2.gz ../patch-4.7.3.gz | patch -p1
@ -289,9 +275,7 @@ that such patches do **NOT** apply on top of 4.x.y kernels but on top of the
base 4.x kernel -- if you need to move from 4.x.y to 4.x+1 you need to
first revert the 4.x.y patch).
Here are some examples:
::
Here are some examples::
# moving from 4.6 to 4.7
@ -339,9 +323,7 @@ So, in order to apply the 4.7.3 patch to your existing 4.7.2 kernel
source you have to first back out the 4.7.2 patch (so you are left with a
base 4.7 kernel source) and then apply the new 4.7.3 patch.
Here's a small example:
::
Here's a small example::
$ cd ~/linux-4.7.2 # change to the kernel source dir
$ patch -p1 -R < ../patch-4.7.2 # revert the 4.7.2 patch
@ -374,9 +356,7 @@ turn into.
So, 4.8-rc5 means that this is the fifth release candidate for the 4.8
kernel and the patch should be applied on top of the 4.7 kernel source.
Here are 3 examples of how to apply these patches:
::
Here are 3 examples of how to apply these patches::
# first an example of moving from 4.7 to 4.8-rc3
@ -418,9 +398,7 @@ a base 4.x-rc kernel -- you can see which from their name.
A patch named 4.7-git1 applies to the 4.7 kernel source and a patch
named 4.8-rc3-git2 applies to the source of the 4.8-rc3 kernel.
Here are some examples of how to apply these patches:
::
Here are some examples of how to apply these patches::
# moving from 4.7 to 4.7-git1