From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from ms.lwn.net (ms.lwn.net [45.79.88.28]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7D23D322C73; Wed, 28 Jan 2026 17:28:00 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=45.79.88.28 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1769621281; cv=none; b=N07MCE6fqkLdQ1xgUoZ+dNvG/k0pAIil65FO7jOuu3OTN1Dth71zFeRpUtzbBwZSs5F7ZuYJAki+0nAjK9ydicLYaj1oPvl2splL0fysuQQiHLAQ8UhrJl1cOTUP3w3Kf+8CctK1PR2PdEtlc6XzDRpHCZP2JUCgse90rTnvsok= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1769621281; c=relaxed/simple; bh=hoQ7f8O0ifvxslF9leeAjp1rd/O058g0+Im1NYwp96k=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:Date:Message-ID: MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=bVvDcY+ukv7npIK37JYEJQLXYUr1VOowtCvUDHcf48AmlmdDZjZK9pxyYrOMrv1HZJaU1Bj4U8thSZIN6SQCitVGnUNcaUWNcLvCuHu3W6QazvfJUBm8lNf9HPI1Llwzc467VHtY5LpukcgZivxtBGcUwHmSqvf5MOglYSL6LTM= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=lwn.net; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=lwn.net; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=lwn.net header.i=@lwn.net header.b=FvvmNFLx; arc=none smtp.client-ip=45.79.88.28 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=lwn.net Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=lwn.net Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=lwn.net header.i=@lwn.net header.b="FvvmNFLx" DKIM-Filter: OpenDKIM Filter v2.11.0 ms.lwn.net 7611940C89 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=lwn.net; s=20201203; t=1769621279; bh=9oqJ9si/9jKjG6XLNNme1EVuvBefXUOVtMWR2s7pbuo=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:Date:From; b=FvvmNFLxw5Ixj5K56aynw58anknAfhai2s7OzYhzSWz+WqCBGTcPjmRYlUU8Ur18G RJbtmjQ/aPzgrX5oRxL1CQsunZTEoNLfXH0GZ7M1S+QjSVgifNiVDWYe4aCAEG+dgB oAWhO03n415iJQ9OvoiMClOgu2EUrzvAP2c4ZKjzBjezPFP0Xnbq/k2X0wQsfEpOm+ hfCw2xwJilzVMBQhq7IIOiB7zJ9l/B2WDFXNBe4mgzGhoQp1T8XcL0CafkebwxmbaL F55T2oCjglGqFPiei9xUqE+NK0BcPNAl+b/Pf8KPmTXfd11jJs9DUGAI7z8B6QG1q6 F5Fn+En/4i0lw== Received: from localhost (unknown [IPv6:2601:280:4600:27b::1fe]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange ECDHE (prime256v1) server-signature ECDSA (prime256v1) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by ms.lwn.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 7611940C89; Wed, 28 Jan 2026 17:27:59 +0000 (UTC) From: Jonathan Corbet To: Mauro Carvalho Chehab , "David S. Miller" , Alexander Lobakin , Alexei Starovoitov , Daniel Borkmann , Jakub Kicinski , Jesper Dangaard Brouer , John Fastabend , Mauro Carvalho Chehab , Richard Cochran Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab , bpf@vger.kernel.org, intel-wired-lan@lists.osuosl.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, Randy Dunlap , Shuah Khan , Stanislav Fomichev Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 00/25] kernel-doc: make it parse new functions and structs In-Reply-To: References: Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2026 10:27:58 -0700 Message-ID: <87ecn97ild.fsf@trenco.lwn.net> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Mauro Carvalho Chehab writes: > Hi Jon, > > It is impressive how a single patch became a series with 25 ones ;-) *sigh* I will try to have a good look at these shortly. It seems pretty clear that this isn't 7.0 material at this point, though. One thing that jumped at me: > Ah, due to the complexity of NestedMatch, I opted to write > some unit tests to verify that the logic there is correct. > We can use it to add other border cases. > > Using it is as easy as running: > > $ tools/unittests/nested_match.py > > (I opted to create a separate directory for it, as this > is not really documentation) Do we really need another unit-testing setup in the kernel? I can't say I'm familiar enough with kunit to say whether it would work for non-kernel code; have you looked and verified that it isn't suitable? Thanks, jon