linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Documentation/networking/af_xdp: Inhibit reference to struct socket

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Message-ID: <20190811113225.GD1966@latitude>
Date:   Sun, 11 Aug 2019 13:32:25 +0200
From:   Jonathan Neuschäfer <j.neuschaefer@....net>
To:     Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
Cc:     Jonathan Neuschäfer <j.neuschaefer@....net>,
        linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com>,
        Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@...nel.org>,
        John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, xdp-newbies@...r.kernel.org,
        bpf@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation/networking/af_xdp: Inhibit reference to
 struct socket

On Sat, Aug 10, 2019 at 08:58:21AM -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> On Sat, 10 Aug 2019 14:17:37 +0200
> Jonathan Neuschäfer <j.neuschaefer@....net> wrote:
> 
> > With the recent change to auto-detect function names, Sphinx parses
> > socket() as a reference to the in-kernel definition of socket. It then
> > decides that struct socket is a good match, which was obviously not
> > intended in this case, because the text speaks about the syscall with
> > the same name.
> > 
> > Prevent socket() from being misinterpreted by wrapping it in ``inline
> > literal`` quotes.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Jonathan Neuschäfer <j.neuschaefer@....net>
> 
> Thanks for looking at that.  The better fix, though, would be to add
> socket() to the Skipfuncs array in Documentation/sphinx/automarkup.py.
> Then it will do the right thing everywhere without the need to add markup
> to the RST files.

Alright, I'll do that for v2.


Thanks,
Jonathan Neuschäfer

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