Re: [PATCH 24/26] locking/atomic: scripts: generate kerneldoc comments

[Akira Yokosawa]

On Wed, 24 May 2023 16:11:52 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Wed, May 24, 2023 at 11:03:58PM +0900, Akira Yokosawa wrote:
> 
>>> * All ops are described as an expression using their usual C operator.
>>>   For example:
>>>
>>>   andnot: "Atomically updates @v to (@v & ~@i)"
>>
>> The kernel-doc script converts "~@i" into reST source of "~**i**",
>> where the emphasis of i is not recognized by Sphinx.
>>
>> For the "@" to work as expected, please say "~(@i)" or "~ @i".
>> My preference is the former.
> 
> And here we start :-/ making the actual comment less readable because
> retarded tooling.
> 
>>>   inc:    "Atomically updates @v to (@v + 1)"
>>>
>>>   Which may be clearer to non-naative English speakers, and allows all
>>                             non-native
>>
>>>   the operations to be described in the same style.
>>>
>>> * All conditional ops have their condition described as an expression
>>>   using the usual C operators. For example:
>>>
>>>   add_unless: "If (@v != @u), atomically updates @v to (@v + @i)"
>>>   cmpxchg:    "If (@v == @old), atomically updates @v to @new"
>>>
>>>   Which may be clearer to non-naative English speakers, and allows all
>>
>> Ditto.
> 
> How about we just keep it as is, and all the rst and html weenies learn
> to use a text editor to read code comments?

:-) :-) :-)

It turns out that kernel-doc is aware of !@var [1].
Similar tricks can be added for ~@var.
So let's keep it as is!

I'll ask documentation forks for updating kernel-doc when this change
is merged eventually.

[1]: ee2aa7590398 ("scripts: kernel-doc: accept negation like !@var")

        Thanks, Akira