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From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
To: Manuel Ebner <manuelebner@mailbox.org>,
	Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>,
	linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, workflows@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-sound@vger.kernel.org, rcu@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-media@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 0/3] Documentation: adopt new coding style of type-aware kmalloc-family
Date: Sun, 03 May 2026 09:51:19 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h5oobifc.fsf@trenco.lwn.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <df48beafcb0cc9caff40db78285113f0b1bd9b87.camel@mailbox.org>

Manuel Ebner <manuelebner@mailbox.org> writes:

> On Sun, 2026-05-03 at 08:56 -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
>> Manuel Ebner <manuelebner@mailbox.org> writes:
>> 
>> > Update the documentation to reflect new type-aware kmalloc-family as
>> > suggested in commit 2932ba8d9c99 ("slab: Introduce kmalloc_obj()
>> > and family")
>> 
>> OK, I have applied this series.  While doing so, I restored the "gfp"
>> parameter in the changelog portion where it had been mistakenly removed.
>
> That's good, thanks.
> I had two more changes lined up for v5 of this series:
>
> -	ptr = kmalloc(sizeof(struct foo, gfp);
> +	ptr = kmalloc(sizeof(struct foo), gfp);
>
> and 
>
> -The argument gfp is optional, the default value is GFP_KERNEL.
> +The argument `gfp` is optional, the default value is `GFP_KERNEL`.
>
> I don't know how to go forward with this.
> please advice

Make a new patch on top of docs-next with the additional changes you
want to do.

Thanks,

jon

      reply	other threads:[~2026-05-03 15:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-04-29  7:08 [PATCH v4 0/3] Documentation: adopt new coding style of type-aware kmalloc-family Manuel Ebner
2026-04-29  7:14 ` [PATCH v4 1/3] " Manuel Ebner
2026-04-29  8:00   ` Vlastimil Babka
2026-04-30  0:53   ` SeongJae Park
2026-04-30  1:00     ` SeongJae Park
2026-05-01  9:12       ` Manuel Ebner
2026-04-29  7:27 ` [PATCH v4 3/3] Documentation: deprecated.rst: kmalloc-family: mark argument as optional Manuel Ebner
2026-04-29  8:01   ` Vlastimil Babka
2026-04-30  1:03   ` SeongJae Park
2026-05-01  9:19     ` Manuel Ebner
2026-05-03 14:56 ` [PATCH v4 0/3] Documentation: adopt new coding style of type-aware kmalloc-family Jonathan Corbet
2026-05-03 15:47   ` Manuel Ebner
2026-05-03 15:51     ` Jonathan Corbet [this message]

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