Jani Nikula [off-list ref] writes:

So yeah, there are definitely tradeoffs there. But it's not like this
constant patching of kernel-doc is exactly burden free either. I don't
know, is it just me, but I'd like to think as a profession we'd be past
writing ad hoc C parsers by now.

I don't think that having a "real" parser is going to free us from the
need to patch kernel-doc.  The kernel uses a weird form of C, and
kernel-doc is expected to evolve as our dialect of the language does.
It *might* make that patching job easier -- that is to be seen -- but it
won't make it go away.

Thanks,

jon