From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
To: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kernel-doc: Handle returning pointers to pointers
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2017 15:25:02 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170126152502.15338592@lwn.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170123081810.31788-1-mawilcox@microsoft.com>
On Mon, 23 Jan 2017 00:18:10 -0800
Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com> wrote:
> Clearly nobody ever tried to build the documentation for the radix tree
> before:
>
> include/linux/radix-tree.h:400: warning: cannot understand function
> prototype: 'void ** radix_tree_iter_init(struct radix_tree_iter *iter,
> unsigned long start) '
>
> Indeed, the regexes only handled a single '*', not one-or-more. I have
> tried to fix that, but now I have perl regexes all over my hands, and
> I fear I shall never be clean again.
Applied, thanks.
About your hands, try Dr Bronner's soap; at least, that's what I use for
bicycle grease. What might be harder to shake is your new reputation as
somebody who knows how to fix the kernel-doc script...:)
jon
prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-01-26 22:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-01-23 8:18 Matthew Wilcox
2017-01-23 12:26 ` Markus Heiser
2017-01-23 15:14 ` Matthew Wilcox
2017-01-23 15:24 ` Jonathan Corbet
2017-01-24 6:58 ` Markus Heiser
2017-01-24 15:35 ` Matthew Wilcox
2017-01-24 20:00 ` Markus Heiser
2017-01-26 22:25 ` Jonathan Corbet [this message]
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