Re: [PATCH v1] docs: xforms_lists: Handle DECLARE_KHOSER_PTR() struct members

From: Jonathan Corbet

Date: Thu Oct 22 2026 - 11:53:48 EST


Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> KHO ABI structures declare their preservation pointers with
> DECLARE_KHOSER_PTR(name, type), which expands to a union of the pointer
> and its physical address. kernel-doc does not know the macro and does
> not see the member: it warns that an unnamed member is not described
> and that the description of the member is excess.
>
> Translate DECLARE_KHOSER_PTR(name, type) into "type name", as is done
> for DECLARE_KFIFO_PTR().
>
> Signed-off-by: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> tools/lib/python/kdoc/xforms_lists.py | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

Applied, thanks.

One note... these:

> base-commit: cee9395acd8043be0644b25c34bfa86623f2b935
> prerequisite-patch-id: 557b4f406b7530b8be07d3e3aa6015ad89ceaa6d
> prerequisite-patch-id: c0430a4f0096e4be93a6200aa4e8a1d392238ca5
> prerequisite-patch-id: 524c71eab38a9175f9920f38717c8ed3b157299f
> prerequisite-patch-id: 61cfc274edef2fb23a1b867c9e0d063578387c45
> prerequisite-patch-id: ac022b05628f8e495a224216352aa037a022aae4
> prerequisite-patch-id: 50668baf257da9873190d08f21538ddc453261a8

...make b4 go off on a wild goose chase and caused the application to
fail. They aren't prerequisites at all, I'm curious about how they came
to be here?

Thanks,

jon