linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] kernel-doc: add support for handling global variables

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Message-ID: <55830002-5b72-4964-b6f0-67dfbbf13537@infradead.org>
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2025 09:45:22 -0800
From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
To: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@...nel.org>
Cc: Linux Doc Mailing List <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>,
 Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kernel-doc: add support for handling global variables



On 11/17/25 1:45 AM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:

>> So, I grabbed some global data from 6-8 places in the kernel and put them intoinit/kdoc-globals-test.c. Then I modified Documentation/core-api/kernel-api.rst
>> like this at the end of that file:
>>
>> +
>> +Kernel Globals
>> +==========================
>> +
>> +.. kernel-doc:: init/kdoc-globals-test.c
>> +   :identifiers:
>>
>> The html output says
>> "Kernel Globals"
>> but nothing else.
> 
> With the version I sent yesterday, after replacing:
> 
> 	global -> var
> 
> the symbols are there.

Great, thanks. I'll look at it later today.

-- 
~Randy