# Re: \[PATCH\] Documentation/networking/af\_xdp: Inhibit reference to struct socket

- From: Jonathan Corbet \<corbet@lwn.net\>
- Date: 2019-08-10 14:58:26 
- List: netdev
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/netdev/2019/08/5683811
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-doc/2019/08/5683786/t.md

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On Sat, 10 Aug 2019 14:17:37 +0200
Jonathan Neuschäfer [ref] wrote:

> With the recent change to auto-detect function names, Sphinx parses
> socket() as a reference to the in-kernel definition of socket. It then
> decides that struct socket is a good match, which was obviously not
> intended in this case, because the text speaks about the syscall with
> the same name.
> 
> Prevent socket() from being misinterpreted by wrapping it in ``inline
> literal`` quotes.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Neuschäfer <j.neuschaefer@gmx.net>

Thanks for looking at that.  The better fix, though, would be to add
socket() to the Skipfuncs array in Documentation/sphinx/automarkup.py.
Then it will do the right thing everywhere without the need to add markup
to the RST files.

Thanks,

jon
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