Re: [PATCH 0/2] Add support for inlined documentation for kunit and kselftests

[Jonathan Corbet]

Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> This is a follow-up of the discussions taken here:
>
>    https://lore.kernel.org/linux-doc/20230704132812.02ba97ba@maurocar-mobl2/T/#t
>
> I sent a previous version as RFC. This is basically what we had there, with some
> improvements at test_list.py.
>
> It adds a new extension that allows documenting tests using the same tool we're
> using for DRM unit tests at IGT GPU tools: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/igt-gpu-tools.
>
> While kernel-doc has provided documentation for in-lined functions/struct comments,
> it was not meant to document tests.
>
> Tests need to be grouped by the test functions. It should also be possible to produce
> other outputs from the documentation, to integrate it with test suites. For instance, 
> Internally at Intel, we use the comments to generate DOT files hierarchically grouped
> per feature categories.
>
> This is meant to be an initial series to start documenting kunit.

I've played with this a bit...a couple of quick impressions:

- That's quite a chunk of Python code to be adding.  I've not yet had
  the chance to read it through properly, will hopefully be able to do
  so soon.  A bit more commenting would not have gone amiss here...

- I kind of think that this should go under dev-tools rather than being
  a new top-level directory.  Is there a reason not to put it there?

Thanks,

jon