From: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com>
To: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Lobakin <aleksander.lobakin@intel.com>,
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>, Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>,
Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>,
intel-wired-lan@lists.osuosl.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
netdev@vger.kernel.org,
"Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@kernel.org>,
Aleksandr Loktionov <aleksandr.loktionov@intel.com>,
Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>,
Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/38] docs: several improvements to kernel-doc
Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2026 11:51:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b345179eb9c440c597f6618697b7272a8e383eff@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260303155310.5235b367@localhost>
On Tue, 03 Mar 2026, Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Feb 2026 15:47:00 +0200
> Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com> wrote:
>> There's always the question, if you're putting a lot of effort into
>> making kernel-doc closer to an actual C parser, why not put all that
>> effort into using and adapting to, you know, an actual C parser?
>
> Playing with this idea, it is not that hard to write an actual C
> parser - or at least a tokenizer.
Just for the record, I suggested using an existing parser, not going all
NIH and writing your own.
BR,
Jani.
--
Jani Nikula, Intel
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Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-02-18 10:12 [PATCH 00/38] docs: several improvements to kernel-doc Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2026-02-18 10:12 ` [PATCH 01/38] docs: kdoc_re: add support for groups() Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2026-02-18 10:12 ` [PATCH 02/38] docs: kdoc_re: don't go past the end of a line Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2026-02-18 10:12 ` [PATCH 03/38] docs: kdoc_parser: move var transformers to the beginning Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2026-02-18 10:12 ` [PATCH 04/38] docs: kdoc_parser: don't mangle with function defines Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2026-02-18 10:12 ` [PATCH 05/38] docs: kdoc_parser: add functions support for NestedMatch Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2026-02-18 10:12 ` [PATCH 06/38] docs: kdoc_parser: use NestedMatch to handle __attribute__ on functions Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2026-02-18 10:12 ` [PATCH 07/38] docs: kdoc_parser: fix variable regexes to work with size_t Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2026-02-18 10:12 ` [PATCH 08/38] docs: kdoc_parser: fix the default_value logic for variables Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2026-02-18 10:12 ` [PATCH 09/38] docs: kdoc_parser: add some debug for variable parsing Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2026-02-18 10:12 ` [PATCH 10/38] docs: kdoc_parser: don't exclude defaults from prototype Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2026-02-18 10:12 ` [PATCH 11/38] docs: kdoc_parser: fix parser to support multi-word types Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2026-02-18 10:12 ` [PATCH 12/38] docs: kdoc_parser: ignore context analysis and lock attributes Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2026-02-18 10:12 ` [PATCH 13/38] docs: kdoc_parser: add support for LIST_HEAD Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2026-02-18 10:12 ` [PATCH 14/38] docs: kdoc_parser: handle struct member macro VIRTIO_DECLARE_FEATURES(name) Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2026-02-18 10:12 ` [PATCH 15/38] docs: kdoc_re: properly handle strings and escape chars on it Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2026-02-18 10:12 ` [PATCH 16/38] docs: kdoc_re: better show KernRe() at documentation Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2026-02-18 10:12 ` [PATCH 17/38] docs: kdoc_re: don't recompile NestedMatch regex every time Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2026-02-18 10:12 ` [PATCH 18/38] docs: kdoc_re: Change NestedMath args replacement to \0 Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2026-02-18 10:12 ` [PATCH 19/38] docs: kdoc_re: make NestedMatch use KernRe Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2026-02-18 10:12 ` [PATCH 20/38] docs: kdoc_re: add support on NestedMatch for argument replacement Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2026-02-18 10:12 ` [PATCH 21/38] docs: kdoc_parser: better handle struct_group macros Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2026-02-18 10:12 ` [PATCH 22/38] docs: kdoc_re: fix a parse bug on struct page_pool_params Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2026-02-18 10:12 ` [PATCH 23/38] docs: kdoc_re: add a helper class to declare C function matches Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2026-02-18 10:12 ` [PATCH 24/38] docs: kdoc_parser: use the new CFunction class Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2026-02-18 10:12 ` [PATCH 25/38] docs: kdoc_parser: minimize differences with struct_group_tagged Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2026-02-18 10:12 ` [PATCH 26/38] docs: kdoc_parser: move transform lists to a separate file Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2026-02-18 10:12 ` [PATCH 27/38] docs: kdoc_re: don't remove the trailing ";" with NestedMatch Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2026-02-18 10:12 ` [PATCH 28/38] docs: kdoc_re: prevent adding whitespaces on sub replacements Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2026-02-18 10:12 ` [PATCH 29/38] docs: xforms_lists.py: use CFuntion to handle all function macros Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2026-02-18 10:13 ` [PATCH 30/38] docs: kdoc_files: allows the caller to use a different xforms class Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2026-02-18 10:13 ` [PATCH 31/38] docs: kdoc_re: Fix NestedMatch.sub() which causes PDF builds to break Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2026-02-18 10:13 ` [PATCH 32/38] docs: kdoc_files: document KernelFiles() ABI Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2026-02-18 10:13 ` [PATCH 33/38] docs: kdoc_output: add optional args to ManOutput class Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2026-02-18 10:13 ` [PATCH 34/38] docs: sphinx-build-wrapper: better handle troff .TH markups Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2026-02-18 10:13 ` [PATCH 35/38] docs: kdoc_output: use a more standard order for .TH on man pages Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2026-02-18 10:13 ` [PATCH 36/38] docs: sphinx-build-wrapper: don't allow "/" on file names Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2026-02-18 10:13 ` [PATCH 37/38] docs: kdoc_output: describe the class init parameters Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2026-02-18 10:13 ` [PATCH 38/38] docs: kdoc_output: pick a better default for modulename Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2026-02-21 1:24 ` [PATCH 00/38] docs: several improvements to kernel-doc Randy Dunlap
2026-02-22 1:24 ` Randy Dunlap
2026-02-23 13:47 ` Jani Nikula
2026-02-23 15:02 ` Jonathan Corbet
2026-02-24 13:25 ` [Intel-wired-lan] " Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2026-03-04 10:07 ` Jani Nikula
2026-03-04 12:20 ` [Intel-wired-lan] " Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2026-03-04 22:34 ` Jonathan Corbet
2026-03-13 10:48 ` [Intel-wired-lan] " Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2026-03-03 14:53 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2026-03-03 15:12 ` Loktionov, Aleksandr
2026-03-03 16:09 ` [Intel-wired-lan] " Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2026-03-04 9:51 ` Jani Nikula [this message]
2026-02-23 21:58 ` Jonathan Corbet
2026-03-02 15:54 ` [Intel-wired-lan] " Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2026-03-02 16:14 ` Jonathan Corbet
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