Re: [PATCH] mm, slab: add kerneldocs for common SLAB_ flags

[Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>]

On 10/9/24 3:02 PM, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> 
> 
> On 10/9/24 9:49 AM, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
>> Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> writes:
>>
>>> Thanks for the hints. I hope if we can agree that documenting the macros was
>>> intended to be supported, doesn't break the build (there are users already)
>>> and has only those minor rendering issues, it can be used?
>>
>> I'd totally forgotten that this was supposed to work.
>>
>> Yes it can be used... $WE just need to find a way to make it work
>> properly.
> 
> The code probably isn't expecting a macro on the right side. I'll take a look,
> but no promises.
> 
That would have been too simple.
I haven't found the problem yet. Ran out of time. Will continue on it tommorrow/Thursday.

>>
>> Every now and then I ponder rewriting kernel-doc in Rust, both to make
>> it more reasonable to modify and as a learning exercise.  But then I
>> come to my senses and go back to stuff that actually needs to get done.
> 
> That's a good way to lose helpers, although it might also gain you a few...
> 
> Yesh, I know, current is Perl.
> 

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~Randy