Re: [PATCH v2 0/7] Fix some issues at get_abi.pl script

[Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>]

Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> writes:

> This series replace this patch:
> 	https://lore.kernel.org/linux-doc/20210324191722.08d352e4@coco.lan/T/#t
>
> It turns that there were multiple bugs at the get_abi.pl code that
> create cross-references.
>
> Patches 1 to 6 fix those issues, and should apply cleanly on the top of
> the docs tree (although I tested against next-20210323).
>
> Patch 7 is optional, and independent from the other patches. It is meant
> to be applied against akpm's tree.  It makes the description (IMHO) 
> clearer, while producing cross references for the two mentioned symbols.

So perhaps this is the best solution to the problem, but I must confess
to not being entirely happy with it.  get_abi.pl is becoming another
unreadable perlpile like kerneldoc, and this makes it worse.  Doing RST
parsing there seems particularly unwelcome.

Should the cross-reference generation, it now occurs to me, be done in
the automarkup module instead?  Then there's no need to interpret RST,
and we'd get cross-references throughout the kernel docs rather than in
just the ABI stuff.  Am I completely out to lunch here?

Thanks,

jon