Re: [PATCH 04/14] ABI: better identificate tables

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 02:01:50PM +0200, Johan Hovold wrote:
> > I don't know when "Description" and "RST-Description" would be used.
> > Why not just parse "Description" like rst text and if things are "messy"
> > we fix them up as found, like you did with the ":" here?  It doesn't
> > have to be complex, we can always fix them up after-the-fact if new
> > stuff gets added that doesn't quite parse properly.
> > 
> > Just like we do for most kernel-doc formatting :)
> 
> But kernel-doc has a documented format, which was sort of the point I
> was trying to make. If the new get_abi.pl scripts expects a colon I
> think it should be mentioned somewhere (e.g. Documentation/ABI/README).
> 
> Grepping for attribute entries in linux-next still reveals a number
> descriptions that still lack that colon and use varying formatting. More
> are bound to be added later, but perhaps that's ok depending on what
> you're aiming at here.

I'm aiming for "good enough" to start with, and then we can work through
the exceptions.

But given that Mauro hasn't resent the script that does the conversion
of the files, I don't know if that will even matter... {hint}

thanks,

greg k-h