Re: [RFC PATCH] kernel-doc: handle X86 DEFINE_IDTENTRY() variants

[Randy Dunlap]

On 1/3/24 12:30, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
>> Teach scripts/kernel-doc to handle the various DEFINE_IDTENTRY*() flavors.
>>
>> This corrects 2 kernel-doc warnings:
>>
>> arch/x86/entry/common.c:211: warning: expecting prototype for int80_emulation(). Prototype was for DEFINE_IDTENTRY_RAW() instead
>>
>> arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:2170: warning: expecting prototype for spurious_interrupt(). Prototype was for DEFINE_IDTENTRY_IRQ() instead
>>
>> The script uses 'uname -m' to determine if it is running on i386 or x86_64
>> or something else. It also uses "ARCH=<arch>" in the environment variables
>> to allow for overriding the processed ARCH.
>>
>> Alternatively, we could remove the "/**" kernel-doc markers from those
>> 2 functions. There are 60 uses of DEFINE_IDTENTRY*() that I see and
>> only 2 of them have kernel-doc comments.
> 
> So I feel like I'm missing something here; the docs build should be the
> same regardless of the architecture it's running on, right?  So why do
> we need architecture checks in kernel-doc?

OK, I could do it that way...

> Honestly, it might be better to just remove the kerneldoc comments
> rather than add this much more complexity.

but I am just as happy with that solution. Thomas, is that OK with you?


thanks.
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#Randy