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@ 2025-07-02 22:35 Jonathan Corbet
  2025-07-02 22:35 ` [PATCH 01/12] docs: kdoc; Add a rudimentary class to represent output items Jonathan Corbet
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From: Jonathan Corbet @ 2025-07-02 22:35 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-doc
  Cc: linux-kernel, Mauro Carvalho Chehab, Akira Yokosawa,
	Jonathan Corbet

[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.

Jonathan Corbet (12):
  docs: kdoc; Add a rudimentary class to represent output items
  docs: kdoc: simplify the output-item passing
  docs: kdoc: drop "sectionlist"
  docs: kdoc: Centralize handling of the item section list
  docs: kdoc: remove the "struct_actual" machinery
  docs: kdoc: use self.entry.parameterlist directly in check_sections()
  docs: kdoc: Coalesce parameter-list handling
  docs: kdoc: Regularize the use of the declaration name
  docs: kdoc: straighten up dump_declaration()
  docs: kdoc: directly access the always-there KdocItem fields
  docs: kdoc: clean up check_sections()
  docs: kdoc: Improve the output text accumulation

 scripts/lib/kdoc/kdoc_files.py  |   4 +-
 scripts/lib/kdoc/kdoc_item.py   |  39 ++++
 scripts/lib/kdoc/kdoc_output.py | 331 ++++++++++++++------------------
 scripts/lib/kdoc/kdoc_parser.py | 162 +++-------------
 4 files changed, 218 insertions(+), 318 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 scripts/lib/kdoc/kdoc_item.py

-- 
2.49.0


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2025-07-02 22:35 ` [PATCH 01/12] docs: kdoc; Add a rudimentary class to represent output items Jonathan Corbet
2025-07-10  5:28   ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2025-07-02 22:35 ` [PATCH 02/12] docs: kdoc: simplify the output-item passing Jonathan Corbet
2025-07-10  5:29   ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2025-07-02 22:35 ` [PATCH 03/12] docs: kdoc: drop "sectionlist" Jonathan Corbet
2025-07-09 16:27   ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2025-07-02 22:35 ` [PATCH 04/12] docs: kdoc: Centralize handling of the item section list Jonathan Corbet
2025-07-10  5:45   ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2025-07-10 13:25     ` Jonathan Corbet
2025-07-02 22:35 ` [PATCH 05/12] docs: kdoc: remove the "struct_actual" machinery Jonathan Corbet
2025-07-10  6:11   ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2025-07-02 22:35 ` [PATCH 06/12] docs: kdoc: use self.entry.parameterlist directly in check_sections() Jonathan Corbet
2025-07-10  6:12   ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2025-07-02 22:35 ` [PATCH 07/12] docs: kdoc: Coalesce parameter-list handling Jonathan Corbet
2025-07-10  6:20   ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2025-07-02 22:35 ` [PATCH 08/12] docs: kdoc: Regularize the use of the declaration name Jonathan Corbet
2025-07-10  6:22   ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2025-07-02 22:35 ` [PATCH 09/12] docs: kdoc: straighten up dump_declaration() Jonathan Corbet
2025-07-10  6:25   ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2025-07-10 13:27     ` Jonathan Corbet
2025-07-10 22:13       ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2025-07-02 22:35 ` [PATCH 10/12] docs: kdoc: directly access the always-there KdocItem fields Jonathan Corbet
2025-07-10  6:27   ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2025-07-02 22:35 ` [PATCH 11/12] docs: kdoc: clean up check_sections() Jonathan Corbet
2025-07-10  6:29   ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2025-07-02 22:35 ` [PATCH 12/12] docs: kdoc: Improve the output text accumulation Jonathan Corbet
2025-07-10  6:41   ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2025-07-10  7:13     ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2025-07-10  8:19       ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2025-07-10 10:10         ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2025-07-10 10:31           ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2025-07-10 10:59             ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2025-07-10 23:30         ` Jonathan Corbet
2025-07-11  6:14           ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2025-07-11 12:49             ` Jonathan Corbet
2025-07-11 16:28               ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2025-07-11 16:39                 ` Jonathan Corbet
2025-07-03  2:07 ` [PATCH 00/12] [PATCH 00/11] Thrash up the parser/output interface Yanteng Si
2025-07-09 15:29 ` Jonathan Corbet
2025-07-09 16:21   ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab

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