Re: [RFC] Add kernel-doc test script

[Jonathan Corbet]

On Tue, 17 Nov 2020 17:36:12 -0500
Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Add a kernel-doc test script to tools/testing/kernel-doc.
> 
> radix_tree_lookup_slot test case provided by Matthew Wilcox.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  tools/testing/kernel-doc/test-case.h          | 111 ++++++++++
>  .../testing/kernel-doc/test-case.man.expected | 150 ++++++++++++++
>  .../kernel-doc/test-case.none.expected        |   0
>  .../kernel-doc/test-case.rst2.expected        | 195 ++++++++++++++++++
>  .../kernel-doc/test-case.rst3.expected        | 195 ++++++++++++++++++
>  tools/testing/kernel-doc/test.sh              |  90 ++++++++
>  6 files changed, 741 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 tools/testing/kernel-doc/test-case.h
>  create mode 100644 tools/testing/kernel-doc/test-case.man.expected
>  create mode 100644 tools/testing/kernel-doc/test-case.none.expected
>  create mode 100644 tools/testing/kernel-doc/test-case.rst2.expected
>  create mode 100644 tools/testing/kernel-doc/test-case.rst3.expected
>  create mode 100755 tools/testing/kernel-doc/test.sh

Seems like a good thing to have overall.

I do worry a bit that the test will be sensitive to *any* change to
kernel-doc output, including formatting changes that might be deliberate.
But if that turns out to be a problem in the real world, we can deal with
it then.

Thanks,

jon