On Tue, 16 Oct 2018, Randy Dunlap <rdun...@infradead.org> wrote:
> On 10/16/18 7:17 PM, Kees Cook wrote:
>> As discussed in the "API replacement/deprecation" thread[1], this
>> makes an effort to document what things shouldn't get (re)added to the
>> kernel, by introducing Documentation/process/deprecated.rst. It also
>> adds the overflow kerndoc to ReST output, and tweaks the struct_size()
>> documentation to parse correctly.
>> 
>> [1] 
>> https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/ksummit-discuss/2018-September/005282.html
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keesc...@chromium.org>
>> ---
>>  Documentation/driver-api/basics.rst  |  3 +
>>  Documentation/process/deprecated.rst | 99 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>  Documentation/process/index.rst      |  1 +
>>  include/linux/overflow.h             |  2 +-
>>  4 files changed, 104 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>  create mode 100644 Documentation/process/deprecated.rst
>
>
>> diff --git a/include/linux/overflow.h b/include/linux/overflow.h
>> index 40b48e2133cb..2f224f43dd06 100644
>> --- a/include/linux/overflow.h
>> +++ b/include/linux/overflow.h
>> @@ -291,7 +291,7 @@ static inline __must_check size_t __ab_c_size(size_t n, 
>> size_t size, size_t c)
>>  }
>>  
>>  /**
>> - * struct_size() - Calculate size of structure with trailing array.
>> + * function struct_size() - Calculate size of structure with trailing array.
>
> That syntax is not explained nor documented in 
> Documentation/doc-guide/kernel-doc.rst.
>
> Is the root problem that the function name begins with "struct"?
> Please explain in the patch description.

Indeed, shouldn't be needed.

BR,
Jani.

>
>>   * @p: Pointer to the structure.
>>   * @member: Name of the array member.
>>   * @n: Number of elements in the array.
>
>
> thanks.

-- 
Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Graphics Center

Reply via email to