# Re: \[PATCH v2 2/2\] Documentation: sphinx: Don't parse socket() as identifier reference

- From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab \<mchehab+samsung@kernel.org\>
- Date: 2019-08-12 16:11:47 
- List: netdev
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/netdev/2019/08/5685144
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-doc/2019/08/5685135/t.md

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Em Mon, 12 Aug 2019 18:07:05 +0200
Jonathan Neuschäfer [ref] escreveu:

> With the introduction of Documentation/sphinx/automarkup.py, socket() is
> parsed as a reference to the in-kernel definition of socket. Sphinx then
> decides that struct socket is a good match, which is usually not
> intended, when the syscall is meant instead. This was observed in
> Documentation/networking/af_xdp.rst.
> 
> Prevent socket() from being misinterpreted by adding it to the Skipfuncs
> list in automarkup.py.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Neuschäfer <j.neuschaefer@gmx.net>
> ---
> 
> v2:
> - block socket() in Documentation/sphinx/automarkup.py, as suggested by
>   Jonathan Corbet
> 
> v1:
> - https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190810121738.19587-1-j.neuschaefer@gmx.net/
> ---
>  Documentation/sphinx/automarkup.py | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/sphinx/automarkup.py b/Documentation/sphinx/automarkup.py
> index a8798369e8f7..5b6119ff69f4 100644
> --- a/Documentation/sphinx/automarkup.py
> +++ b/Documentation/sphinx/automarkup.py
> @@ -26,7 +26,8 @@ RE_function = re.compile(r'([\w_][\w\d_]+\(\))')
>  # just don't even try with these names.
>  #
>  Skipfuncs = [ 'open', 'close', 'read', 'write', 'fcntl', 'mmap',
> -              'select', 'poll', 'fork', 'execve', 'clone', 'ioctl']
> +              'select', 'poll', 'fork', 'execve', 'clone', 'ioctl',
> +              'socket' ]

Both patches sound OK on my eyes. Yet, I would just fold them into
a single one.

In any case:

Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
> 
>  #
>  # Find all occurrences of function() and try to replace them with
> --
> 2.20.1
> 



Thanks,
Mauro
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