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It's possible for a poll_table to be null. This can happen if an end-user just wants to know if a resource has events right now without registering a waiter for when events become available. Furthermore, these null pointers should be handled transparently by the API, so we should not change `from_ptr` to return an `Option`. Thus, change `PollTable` to wrap a raw pointer rather than use a reference so that you can pass null. Comments mentioning `struct poll_table` are changed to just `poll_table` since `poll_table` is a typedef. (It's a typedef because it's supposed to be opaque.) Reviewed-by: Benno Lossin <lossin@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.