linux-kernel - Re: Improving documentation for programming interfaces

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Message-ID: <20191220151945.GD59959@mit.edu>
Date:   Fri, 20 Dec 2019 10:19:45 -0500
From:   "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
To:     Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@....de>
Cc:     linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Improving documentation for programming interfaces

On Fri, Dec 20, 2019 at 02:30:10PM +0100, Markus Elfring wrote:
> Linux supports some programming interfaces. Several functions are provided
> as usual. Their application documentation is an ongoing development challenge.
> 
> Now I would like to clarify possibilities for the specification of desired
> information together with data types besides properties which are handled by
> the programming language “C” so far.
> It seems that no customised attributes are supported at the moment.
> Thus I imagine to specify helpful annotations as macros.
> 
> Example:
> Some functions allocate resources to which a pointer (or handle) is returned.
> I would find it nice then if such a pointer would contain also the background
> information by which functions the resource should usually be released.
> 
> Can it become easier to determine such data?

Markus,

It's unclear to me what you are requesting/proposing?  Can you be a
bit more concrete?

						- Ted