Re: [PATCH v2 00/12] docs: kdoc: thrash up dump_struct()

From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab
Date: Sat Aug 09 2025 - 11:47:34 EST


Em Thu, 7 Aug 2025 15:16:27 -0600
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx> escreveu:

> In my ongoing effort to truly understand our new kernel-doc, I continue to
> make changes to improve the code, and to try to make the understanding task
> easier for the next person. These patches focus on dump_struct() in
> particular, which starts out at nearly 300 lines long - to much to fit into
> my little brain anyway. Hopefully the result is easier to manage.
>
> There are no changes in the rendered docs.
>
> Changes in v2:
>
> - Reduce the regex backslash removal to keep them in place for
> {}()[] even when not required.
>
> - Restore some of the single-use variables set from regex matches
>
> Mauro, I have applied your Reviewed-by to everything except patch 10,
> hopefully it is more to your liking now.

All looks good to me now. Thanks!

I sent a suggestion for a further improvement on patch 10/12 together
with my R-B.

> [Helpful hint for the future: if you are going to make a bunch of
> subtle changes to regexes used throughout a patch series, do it at
> the end...you'll go through far less rebasing pain that way when you
> have to change them... :) ]

Sorry for that! Yet, IMO, the code looks a lot nicer with the regex
changes you did over the past version.

Regards,
Mauro