On Mon, 14 Jul 2025, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote: > On 2025-07-04 15:26:53 [+0200], Ahmed S. Darwish wrote: > > Hi, > Hi, > > > This series provides much needed bugfixes, cleanups, and updates to the > > cyclictest(1) manpage. > > I would merge the "remove $X" flag patches. It is a few times the same > thing. > Then you have update troff syntax, re-grouping options and then you > extend a few/ update them. > > Given how difficult it seems to be to write these things I would suggest > to either switch to asciidoc or pandoc and let one of the tools > generate the man page and/or html from it. > > perf uses asciidoc while rtla uses rst2man. I don't care which one of > these is used but after I saw the cleanup I think it is easier for > maintenance to use one of these simple tools. > > Therefore I would suggest to write a new page for cyclictest based on > what we have after content wise after #28, let rt-tests generate the > man-page from it, remove the current man-page. > > John, Ahmed ? Sure, I'm open to a new way of doing things. I would prefer rst2man over asciidoc. We can still accept the patches that Ahmed sent fist, after I review them. John Kacur
