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

[Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>]

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.

> 
> 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.

-- 
~Randy