linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 05/14] scripts: add an script to parse the ABI files

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Message-ID: <20190614105806.367f26e9@coco.lan>
Date:   Fri, 14 Jun 2019 10:58:06 -0300
From:   Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@...nel.org>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@...ux.intel.com>,
        Linux Doc Mailing List <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...pensource.com>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...radead.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/14] scripts: add an script to parse the ABI files

Em Fri, 14 Jun 2019 15:39:33 +0200
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> escreveu:

> On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 04:31:56PM +0300, Jani Nikula wrote:
> > On Thu, 13 Jun 2019, Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@...nel.org> wrote:  
> > > From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...pensource.com>
> > >
> > > Add a script to parse the Documentation/ABI files and produce
> > > an output with all entries inside an ABI (sub)directory.
> > >
> > > Right now, it outputs its contents on ReST format. It shouldn't
> > > be hard to make it produce other kind of outputs, since the ABI
> > > file parser is implemented in separate than the output generator.  
> > 
> > Hum, or just convert the ABI files to rst directly.  

Converting ABI files to rst could be easily done using a modified
version of my script (plus the produced files will likely need some
manual review).

There is a drawback though: we'll lose the capability of being able
to parse ABI files via an script, as people would be freed to use a
different syntax.

We could minimize it by using things like:

:What:
:Kernel Version:
...

> And what would that look like?

That's the big question :-)

If you prefer something like that, I can write the patches.

Thanks,
Mauro