Re: [PATCH] xdrgen: Add a utility for extracting XDR from RFCs

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> On Oct 7, 2024, at 2:17 PM, Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 2024-10-07 at 14:07 -0400, cel@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> From: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> 
>> For convenience, copy the XDR extraction script from RFC
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> tools/net/sunrpc/extract.sh | 10 ++++++++++
>> 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
>> create mode 100755 tools/net/sunrpc/extract.sh
>> 
>> diff --git a/tools/net/sunrpc/extract.sh b/tools/net/sunrpc/extract.sh
>> new file mode 100755
>> index 000000000000..13b0036eaa81
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/tools/net/sunrpc/extract.sh
>> @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
>> +#! /bin/sh
>> +#
>> +# Extract an RPC protocol specification from an RFC document.
>> +# The version of this script comes from RFC 8166.
>> +#
>> +# Usage:
>> +#  $ extract.sh < rfcNNNN.txt > protocol.x
>> +#
>> +
>> +grep '^ *///' | sed 's?^ */// ??' | sed 's?^ *///$??'
> 
> It might be nice to mention where to get the versions of the .txt files
> that have the "///" annotation before the source code bits. Are those
> available somewhere?

That kind of index would be appropriate to store under
Documentation/sunrpc/xdr/ .

Or you can edit the extracted .x file to include that
information as a comment, which is what I've been doing
when the extracted .x does not already have that
information. For example:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cel/linux.git/commit/?h=xdrgen&id=ea22fd02cf4aed2eb6dfaaeb5738dcca366c11de


--
Chuck Lever






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