linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] docs: Update documentation to avoid mentioning of kernel.h

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Message-ID: <8d68b0b7-ee9e-4121-aa85-19fbf8470fdc@infradead.org>
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2025 13:33:13 -0800
From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
To: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
Cc: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <linux@...blig.org>, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, workflows@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-remoteproc@...r.kernel.org,
 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
 "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>, Danilo Krummrich <dakr@...nel.org>,
 Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@...il.com>,
 Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@...il.com>, Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>,
 Bjorn Andersson <andersson@...nel.org>,
 Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] docs: Update documentation to avoid mentioning of
 kernel.h

On 11/26/25 1:24 PM, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 26, 2025 at 01:18:29PM -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>> On 11/26/25 12:59 PM, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> 
> ...
> 
>>> -The header file include/linux/kernel.h contains a number of macros that
>>> +There many header files in include/linux/ that contain a number of macros that
>>
>>    There are many
>>
>>>  you should use, rather than explicitly coding some variant of them yourself.
>>>  For example, if you need to calculate the length of an array, take advantage
>>>  of the macro
>>
>> Otherwise LGTM. Thanks.
>>
>> Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Can you also test it? I hope it will be not so broken (as some of the files
> seems never were before in the generated docs).

It's not completely happy:

linux-next-20251126/Documentation/driver-api/basics:130: ../include/linux/util_macros.h:125: ERROR: Unexpected indentation. [docutils]
linux-next-20251126/Documentation/driver-api/basics:130: ../include/linux/util_macros.h:123: WARNING: Inline emphasis start-string without end-string. [docutils]
linux-next-20251126/Documentation/driver-api/basics:130: ../include/linux/util_macros.h:126: WARNING: Block quote ends without a blank line; unexpected unindent. [docutils]
linux-next-20251126/Documentation/driver-api/basics:130: ../include/linux/util_macros.h:130: WARNING: Definition list ends without a blank line; unexpected unindent. [docutils]

-- 
~Randy