Re: [PATCH v2 00/25] kernel-doc: make it parse new functions and structs

[Jonathan Corbet]

Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Hi Jon,
>
> It is impressive how a single patch became a series with 25 ones ;-)

*sigh*

I will try to have a good look at these shortly.  It seems pretty clear
that this isn't 7.0 material at this point, though.

One thing that jumped at me:

> Ah, due to the complexity of NestedMatch, I opted to write
> some unit tests to verify that the logic there is correct.
> We can use it to add other border cases.
>
> Using it is as easy as running:
>
> 	$ tools/unittests/nested_match.py
>
> (I opted to create a separate directory for it, as this
> is not really documentation)

Do we really need another unit-testing setup in the kernel?  I can't say
I'm familiar enough with kunit to say whether it would work for
non-kernel code; have you looked and verified that it isn't suitable?

Thanks,

jon