linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] scripts: kernel-doc: Major kernel-doc rework

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Message-ID: <20220218032930.5230ee1e@fuji.fritz.box>
Date:   Fri, 18 Feb 2022 03:29:30 +0100
From:   Tomasz Warniełło <tomasz.warniello@...il.com>
To:     Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
Cc:     linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] scripts: kernel-doc: Major kernel-doc rework

On Thu, 17 Feb 2022 10:04:23 -0700
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net> wrote:

> This is the kernel community you're talking about - saying that it
> prefers any language (except possibly C) is asking for big-time trouble
> :)

It should be written in C then.

> Markus's work was here:
> 
>   https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1485287564-24205-1-git-send-email-markus.heiser@darmarit.de/
> 
> At the time, we were just trying to get the RST transition done, and
> swapping out the kernel-doc script seemed like a major distraction that
> we didn't need, so this never got looked at as seriously as I would have
> liked.

Thanks. Interesting.

I should have mentioned getting rid of the parser states in my release
announcement.