Re: [PATCH 05/14] scripts: add an script to parse the ABI files

[Mauro Carvalho Chehab]

Em Fri, 14 Jun 2019 15:39:33 +0200
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> escreveu:

> On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 04:31:56PM +0300, Jani Nikula wrote:
> > On Thu, 13 Jun 2019, Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:  
> > > From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > Add a script to parse the Documentation/ABI files and produce
> > > an output with all entries inside an ABI (sub)directory.
> > >
> > > Right now, it outputs its contents on ReST format. It shouldn't
> > > be hard to make it produce other kind of outputs, since the ABI
> > > file parser is implemented in separate than the output generator.  
> > 
> > Hum, or just convert the ABI files to rst directly.  

Converting ABI files to rst could be easily done using a modified
version of my script (plus the produced files will likely need some
manual review).

There is a drawback though: we'll lose the capability of being able
to parse ABI files via an script, as people would be freed to use a
different syntax.

We could minimize it by using things like:

:What:
:Kernel Version:
...

> And what would that look like?

That's the big question :-)

If you prefer something like that, I can write the patches.

Thanks,
Mauro