linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 12/12] docs: kdoc: Improve the output text accumulation

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Message-ID: <87o6tqvfzs.fsf@trenco.lwn.net>
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2025 10:39:35 -0600
From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
To: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@...nel.org>
Cc: linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Akira Yokosawa
 <akiyks@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 12/12] docs: kdoc: Improve the output text accumulation

Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@...nel.org> writes:

>> Perhaps the new not_emit() could even be aware of --none and just drop
>> the data on the floor.
>
> The code already does that on a much more optimized way. This
> is actually one of the improvements over the Perl version: we
> don't need to implement anything special for none.

So your comment on emit() being mis-named for the --none case didn't
actually apply... :)

jon