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Message-ID: <CALNs47tMfa3CWaA3Z2sco8FgFW4UOC7_ESRZE0W6Z_1i6FBAWA@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2024 20:21:49 -0500
From: Trevor Gross <tmgross@...ch.edu>
To: Valentin Obst <kernel@...entinobst.de>
Cc: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@...nel.org>, Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@...il.com>, 
	Wedson Almeida Filho <wedsonaf@...il.com>, Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@...il.com>, Gary Guo <gary@...yguo.net>, 
	Björn Roy Baron <bjorn3_gh@...tonmail.com>, 
	Benno Lossin <benno.lossin@...ton.me>, Andreas Hindborg <a.hindborg@...sung.com>, 
	Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@...gle.com>, rust-for-linux@...r.kernel.org, 
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 12/13] rust: kernel: remove unneeded doclink targets

On Tue, Jan 16, 2024 at 7:16 PM Valentin Obst <kernel@...entinobst.de> wrote:
>
> Remove explicit targets for doclinks in cases where rustdoc can
> determine the correct target by itself. The goal is to reduce verbosity
> in the source code.
>
> Signed-off-by: Valentin Obst <kernel@...entinobst.de>
> ---
>  rust/kernel/workqueue.rs | 10 ----------
>  1 file changed, 10 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/rust/kernel/workqueue.rs b/rust/kernel/workqueue.rs
> index aedf47f258bd..f63190b563d8 100644
> --- a/rust/kernel/workqueue.rs
> +++ b/rust/kernel/workqueue.rs
> @@ -426,13 +426,10 @@ pub unsafe fn raw_get(ptr: *const Self) -> *mut bindings::work_struct {
>  /// The [`OFFSET`] constant must be the offset of a field in `Self` of type [`Work<T, ID>`]. The
>  /// methods on this trait must have exactly the behavior that the definitions given below have.
>  ///
> -/// [`Work<T, ID>`]: Work
> [...]

Just for reference, this behavior is described at
https://doc.rust-lang.org/rustdoc/write-documentation/linking-to-items-by-name.html#valid-links:

> You can also refer to items with generic parameters like Vec<T>. The
> link will resolve as if you had written [`Vec<T>`](Vec)