Re: [PATCH 2/2] kernel-doc: Handle function typedefs without asterisks

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Fri, Nov 13, 2020 at 03:21:06PM -0700, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Oct 2020 15:47:13 +0100
> Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > From: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > Example of typedef that was not parsed by kernel-doc:
> > 
> >   typedef void (ObjectUnparent)(Object *obj);
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> So as you've undoubtedly noticed, reading those kernel-doc regexes is ... a
> wee bit on the painful side.  Trying to compare two of them in a patch to
> figure out what you have done is even worse.  I suspect we want these
> patches, but can you please supply a changelog that describes the change? 

Better ... can we have a test suite for the regexes and make patches to
them include updates to the test suite?  They have clearly passed the
point of human understanding ;-)