[Reposting with apologies for the dup and those inflicted by the broken Gmail defaults. I have migrated away from Gmail, but some threads are still stuck there.]
On Mon, Oct 20, 2025 at 7:35 PM David Hildenbrand david@redhat.com wrote:
+------------ +The Documentation/doc-guide/kernel-doc.rst chapter describes how to document the code using the kernel-doc format, however it does not specify the criteria to be followed for writing testable specifications; i.e. specifications that can be used to for the semantic description of low level requirements.
Please, for any future versions, stick to the 80-column limit; this is especially important for text files that you want humans to read.
As a nit, you don't need to start by saying what other documents don't do, just describe the purpose of *this* document.
More substantially ... I got a way into this document before realizing that you were describing an addition to the format of kerneldoc comments. That would be good to make clear from the outset.
What I still don't really understand is what is the *purpose* of this formalized text? What will be consuming it? You're asking for a fair amount of effort to write and maintain these descriptions; what's in it for the people who do that work?
I might be wrong, but sounds to me like someone intends to feed this to AI to generate tests or code.
Absolutely not the intent. This is about the lossy process of converting human ideas to code. Reliably going from code to test requires an understanding of what was lost in translation. This project is about filling that gap.
In that case, no thanks.
I'm pretty sure we don't want this.
Nor I. If you find any references in our work that amount to a validation of your concerns, please bring them to our attention.
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