Re: [PATCH 00/12] [PATCH 00/11] Thrash up the parser/output interface

[Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>]

Em Wed, 09 Jul 2025 09:29:28 -0600
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> escreveu:

> Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> writes:
> 
> > [I'll slow down soon, honest - real work is piling up...]
> >
> > The kerneldoc parsing phase gathers all of the information about the
> > declarations of interest, then passes it through to the output phase as a
> > dict that is an unstructured blob of information; this organization has its
> > origins in the Perl version of the program.  It results in an interface
> > that is difficult to reason about, dozen-parameter function calls, and
> > other ills.
> >
> > Introduce a new class (KdocItem) to carry this information between the
> > parser and the output modules, and, step by step, modify the system to use
> > this class in a more structured way.  This could be taken further by
> > creating a subclass of KdocItem for each declaration type (function,
> > struct, ...), but that is probably more structure than we need.
> >
> > As a final step, add some structure for the accumulation of the output
> > text.
> >
> > The result is (I hope) clearer code, the removal of a bunch of boilerplate,
> > and no changes to the generated output.  
> 
> Has anybody else had a chance to look at this?  Or should I assume it's
> perfect? :)

I didn't look on it yet. I'll try to look it along the week.

Regards,
Mauro