On 04/06/2018 01:11 PM, Quentin Monnet wrote: >> eBPF helper functions can be called from within eBPF programs to perform >> a variety of tasks that would be otherwise hard or impossible to do with >> eBPF itself. There is a growing number of such helper functions in the >> kernel, but documentation is scarce. The main user space header file >> does contain a short commented description of most helpers, but it is >> somewhat outdated and not complete. It is more a "cheat sheet" than a >> real documentation accessible to new eBPF developers. >> >> This commit attempts to improve the situation by replacing the existing >> overview for the helpers with a more developed description. Furthermore, >> a Python script is added to generate a manual page for eBPF helpers. The >> workflow is the following, and requires the rst2man utility: >> >> $ ./scripts/bpf_helpers_doc.py \ >> --filename include/uapi/linux/bpf.h > /tmp/bpf-helpers.rst >> $ rst2man /tmp/bpf-helpers.rst > /tmp/bpf-helpers.7 >> $ man /tmp/bpf-helpers.7 >> >> The objective is to keep all documentation related to the helpers in a >> single place, Do we really need another kernel-doc parser? ./scripts/kernel-doc include/uapi/linux/bpf.h should already do the job (producing .rst). For more infos, take a look at https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/doc-guide/index.html -- Markus -- PS: sorry for re-post, first post was HTML which is not accepted by ML :o -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
