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Silva" , Aleksandr Loktionov , Randy Dunlap , Shuah Khan In-Reply-To: <352c3f9f8ffd2d031c86a476e532a8ea6ffcf1ed@intel.com> References: <33d214091909b9a060637f56f81fb8f525cf433b@intel.com> <878qcj8pvw.fsf@trenco.lwn.net> <352c3f9f8ffd2d031c86a476e532a8ea6ffcf1ed@intel.com> Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2026 15:34:03 -0700 Message-ID: <87seaf442s.fsf@trenco.lwn.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Mailman-Original-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=lwn.net; s=20201203; t=1772663644; bh=QFep6DoXCTa6MHlsiX+CObDNlX2M5BuqRR2s8vPNjQw=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:Date:From; b=FFoWFdvKTGVVYBua1siObF/ey46mYxmOLcZGV2bmR2fbaG6NwxZ3th2uh5jbu5utG 0qB8XWF6PqZ14mHP/DYJKy+g3i5IAfL/vXb+tYHDuPZFawpGT3ysTRYqldztWkiTwj kjojNazoDd05ZY5le9rksrrzwAm3IzxuauTFzhxnzwEH3+zHvFxTiLkKc9qq/Ma8xA ptUz7PtIv/b2FJZ8P3JuSzpkI/8l7U3T96cGfvEDJ/5PwBuZMX513Qs+F56zRvqBLz KSiGjd8eTlzi41qo48+AR3nRw7WV1cwHxr2IOUjfd2XbsvwNy1wv7aeMWN7I7sCGIS KDeyNFJQM2Gyw== X-Mailman-Original-Authentication-Results: smtp1.osuosl.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=lwn.net X-Mailman-Original-Authentication-Results: smtp1.osuosl.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key, unprotected) header.d=lwn.net header.i=@lwn.net header.a=rsa-sha256 header.s=20201203 header.b=FFoWFdvK Subject: Re: [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH 00/38] docs: several improvements to kernel-doc X-BeenThere: intel-wired-lan@osuosl.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.30 Precedence: list List-Id: Intel Wired Ethernet Linux Kernel Driver Development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: intel-wired-lan-bounces@osuosl.org Sender: "Intel-wired-lan" Jani Nikula writes: > So yeah, there are definitely tradeoffs there. But it's not like this > constant patching of kernel-doc is exactly burden free either. I don't > know, is it just me, but I'd like to think as a profession we'd be past > writing ad hoc C parsers by now. I don't think that having a "real" parser is going to free us from the need to patch kernel-doc. The kernel uses a weird form of C, and kernel-doc is expected to evolve as our dialect of the language does. It *might* make that patching job easier -- that is to be seen -- but it won't make it go away. Thanks, jon