Re: [PATCH] docs: fix broken reference

[Peter Maydell]

On Tue, 11 May 2021 at 20:29, John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> Long story short, we need a space here for the reference to work
> correctly.
>
>
> Longer story:
>
> Without the space, kerneldoc generates a line like this:
>
> one of :c:type:`MemoryListener.region_add\(\) 
> <MemoryListener>`,:c:type:`MemoryListener.region_del\(\)
>
> Sphinx does not process the role information correctly, so we get this
> (my pseudo-notation) construct:
>
> <text>,:c:type:</text>
> <reference target="MemoryListener">MemoryListener.region_del()</reference>
>
> which does not reference the desired entity, and leaves some extra junk
> in the rendered output. See
> https://qemu-project.gitlab.io/qemu/devel/memory.html#c.MemoryListener
> member log_start for an example of the broken output as it looks today.
>
> Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
> ---
>  include/exec/memory.h | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/exec/memory.h b/include/exec/memory.h
> index 5728a681b27..3b9ca696061 100644
> --- a/include/exec/memory.h
> +++ b/include/exec/memory.h
> @@ -571,7 +571,7 @@ struct MemoryListener {
>       * @log_start:
>       *
>       * Called during an address space update transaction, after
> -     * one of #MemoryListener.region_add(),#MemoryListener.region_del() or
> +     * one of #MemoryListener.region_add(), #MemoryListener.region_del() or
>       * #MemoryListener.region_nop(), if dirty memory logging clients have
>       * become active since the last transaction.
>       *
> --

Reviewed-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>

thanks
-- PMM