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Message-ID: <aNM-9aXWTXITUoDw@archie.me>
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2025 07:44:37 +0700
From: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@...il.com>
To: Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Documentation <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Networking <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@...nel.org>,
	Kees Cook <kees@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 2/3] net: dns_resolver: Move dns_query()
 explanation out of code block

On Tue, Sep 23, 2025 at 11:14:56AM +0100, Simon Horman wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 22, 2025 at 04:56:47PM +0700, Bagas Sanjaya wrote:
> > Documentation for dns_query() is placed in the function's literal code
> > block snippet instead. Move it out of there.
> > 
> > Fixes: 9dfe1361261b ("docs: networking: convert dns_resolver.txt to ReST")
> > Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@...il.com>
> 
> Thanks, this renders much better. In a browser at least.
> 
> I've added a few comments below.
> 
> > ---
> >  Documentation/networking/dns_resolver.rst | 45 +++++++++++------------
> >  1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/Documentation/networking/dns_resolver.rst b/Documentation/networking/dns_resolver.rst
> > index 5cec37bedf9950..329fb21d005ccd 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/networking/dns_resolver.rst
> > +++ b/Documentation/networking/dns_resolver.rst
> > @@ -64,44 +64,43 @@ before the more general line given above as the first match is the one taken::
> >  Usage
> >  =====
> >  
> > -To make use of this facility, one of the following functions that are
> > -implemented in the module can be called after doing::
> > +To make use of this facility, the appropriate header must be included first::
> 
> Maybe: ..., first linux/dns_resolver.h must be included.
> 
> >  
> >  	#include <linux/dns_resolver.h>
> >  
> > -     ::
> > +Then you can make queries by calling::
> 
> Please use imperative mood:
> 
> Then queries may be made by calling::
> 
> >  
> >  	int dns_query(const char *type, const char *name, size_t namelen,
> >  		     const char *options, char **_result, time_t *_expiry);
> >  
> > -     This is the basic access function.  It looks for a cached DNS query and if
> > -     it doesn't find it, it upcalls to userspace to make a new DNS query, which
> > -     may then be cached.  The key description is constructed as a string of the
> > -     form::
> > +This is the basic access function.  It looks for a cached DNS query and if
> > +it doesn't find it, it upcalls to userspace to make a new DNS query, which
> > +may then be cached.  The key description is constructed as a string of the
> > +form::
> >  
> >  		[<type>:]<name>
> >  
> > -     where <type> optionally specifies the particular upcall program to invoke,
> > -     and thus the type of query to do, and <name> specifies the string to be
> > -     looked up.  The default query type is a straight hostname to IP address
> > -     set lookup.
> > +where <type> optionally specifies the particular upcall program to invoke,
> > +and thus the type of query to do, and <name> specifies the string to be
> 
> I think while we are here "to do" could be removed.
> But maybe that's just me.
> 
> > +looked up.  The default query type is a straight hostname to IP address
> > +set lookup.
> 
> ...

Thanks for the wording suggestions! I'll apply them in v2.

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