kernel/git/stable/linux.git/Documentation/driver-api/mailbox.rst, branch linux-7.2.y

Documentation: adopt new coding style of type-aware kmalloc-family

2026-05-03T14:54:21+00:00

Update the documentation to reflect new type-aware kmalloc-family as suggested in commit 2932ba8d9c99 ("slab: Introduce kmalloc_obj() and family") ptr = kmalloc(sizeof(*ptr), gfp); -> ptr = kmalloc_obj(*ptr, gfp); ptr = kmalloc(sizeof(struct some_obj_name), gfp); -> ptr = kmalloc_obj(*ptr, gfp); ptr = kzalloc(sizeof(*ptr), gfp); -> ptr = kzalloc_obj(*ptr, gfp); ptr = kmalloc_array(count, sizeof(*ptr), gfp); -> ptr = kmalloc_objs(*ptr, count, gfp); ptr = kcalloc(count, sizeof(*ptr), gfp); -> ptr = kzalloc_objs(*ptr, count, gfp); Signed-off-by: Manuel Ebner Acked-by: SeongJae Park Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet Message-ID: <20260429071445.309733-2-manuelebner@mailbox.org>

Documentation: mailbox: mbox_chan_ops.flush() is optional

2025-12-22T22:30:31+00:00

When the optional .flush() method was added to the mbox_chan structure, the documentation was not updated. Fixes: a8803d7421cc2be2 ("mailbox: Support blocking transfers in atomic context") Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet Message-ID: <6a50a5d4f0d0da26e5cccf348550879e53792e6e.1764861174.git.geert+renesas@glider.be>

docs: move mailbox.txt to driver-api and rename it

2020-06-26T17:33:38+00:00

This file is already at the ReST format. Move it to driver-api and rename it. Suggested-by: Jonathan Corbet Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/03e40c31b86c1f4fd3597bf4bfb8346901286bab.1592918949.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet