linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] drm: Fix no_vblank field references in documentation

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Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2024 14:02:42 -0700
From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
To: Marijn Suijten <marijn.suijten@...ainline.org>
Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@...ux.intel.com>,
 Maxime Ripard <mripard@...nel.org>, Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@...e.de>,
 David Airlie <airlied@...il.com>, Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>,
 AngeloGioacchino Del Regno <angelogioacchino.delregno@...labora.com>,
 Konrad Dybcio <konrad.dybcio@...aro.org>, dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Dmitry Baryshkov <dmitry.baryshkov@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm: Fix no_vblank field references in documentation



On 4/16/24 2:00 PM, Marijn Suijten wrote:
> Hi Randy,
> 
> [..]
> 
>> Do you see differences in the generated html for these changes?
> 
> I have not yet generated the HTML locally to test this patch, but will surely do
> if that's a requirement.
> 
>> "&struct somestruct" and "&somestruct" should both be OK AFAIK, although
>> Documentation/doc-guide/kernel-doc.rst seems to say that using
>> "&struct somestruct" is preferred.
> 
> Keep in mind that this patch is about field/member references.  Quoting the
> relevant paragraph under "Highlights and cross-references":
> 
>   ``&struct_name->member`` or ``&struct_name.member``
>     Structure or union member reference. The cross-reference will be to the struct
>     or union definition, not the member directly.
> 
> This lacks the struct tag entirely, and observation shows that links with them
> don't highlight correctly (hence this patch) while member links without struct
> tag are clickable and have an anchor link to their parent struct.

Alrigthy. Thank you.

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