linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] doc-guide: kernel-doc: tell about object-like macros

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Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2024 12:02:14 -0800
From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc-guide: kernel-doc: tell about object-like macros



On 1/5/24 21:01, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> Since 2014 kernel-doc has supported describing object-like macros
> macros but it is not documented anywhere. I should have required
> some documentation for it when I merged the patch. :(
> 
> There are currently only 3 uses of this (all in DRM headers, in
> include/drm/*.h). There have recently been a few other attempts
> at using kernel-doc for object-like macros, but they didn't use the
> "define" keyword and I mistakenly told them that kernel-doc does
> not support such documentation.  :( again.
> 
> Add object-like kernel-doc documentation now so that more may know
> about it and use it.
> 
> Fixes: cbb4d3e6510b ("scripts/kernel-doc: handle object-like macros")
> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
> Cc: linux-doc@...r.kernel.org
> ---
>  Documentation/doc-guide/kernel-doc.rst |   21 +++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 21 insertions(+)

Jon,
I'm going to send a v2 of this patch. Please don't merge this one.

Thanks.
-- 
#Randy