From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753468AbdAZWZL (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jan 2017 17:25:11 -0500 Received: from ms.lwn.net ([45.79.88.28]:49238 "EHLO ms.lwn.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752737AbdAZWZJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jan 2017 17:25:09 -0500 Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2017 15:25:02 -0700 From: Jonathan Corbet To: Matthew Wilcox Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] kernel-doc: Handle returning pointers to pointers Message-ID: <20170126152502.15338592@lwn.net> In-Reply-To: <20170123081810.31788-1-mawilcox@microsoft.com> References: <20170123081810.31788-1-mawilcox@microsoft.com> Organization: LWN.net X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.14.1 (GTK+ 2.24.31; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 23 Jan 2017 00:18:10 -0800 Matthew Wilcox 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