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Commit 262086cf authored by Robert P. J. Day's avatar Robert P. J. Day Committed by Linus Torvalds
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[PATCH] Discuss a couple common errors in kernel-doc usage.



Explain a couple of the most common errors in kernel-doc usage.

Signed-off-by: default avatarRobert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Acked-by: default avatarRandy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 78137e3b
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@@ -107,10 +107,14 @@ The format of the block comment is like this:
 * (section header: (section description)? )*
(*)?*/

The short function description cannot be multiline, but the other
descriptions can be (and they can contain blank lines). Avoid putting a
spurious blank line after the function name, or else the description will
be repeated!
The short function description ***cannot be multiline***, but the other
descriptions can be (and they can contain blank lines).  If you continue
that initial short description onto a second line, that second line will
appear further down at the beginning of the description section, which is
almost certainly not what you had in mind.

Avoid putting a spurious blank line after the function name, or else the
description will be repeated!

All descriptive text is further processed, scanning for the following special
patterns, which are highlighted appropriately.
@@ -121,6 +125,31 @@ patterns, which are highlighted appropriately.
'@parameter' - name of a parameter
'%CONST' - name of a constant.

NOTE 1:  The multi-line descriptive text you provide does *not* recognize
line breaks, so if you try to format some text nicely, as in:

  Return codes
    0 - cool
    1 - invalid arg
    2 - out of memory

this will all run together and produce:

  Return codes 0 - cool 1 - invalid arg 2 - out of memory

NOTE 2:  If the descriptive text you provide has lines that begin with
some phrase followed by a colon, each of those phrases will be taken as
a new section heading, which means you should similarly try to avoid text
like:

  Return codes:
    0: cool
    1: invalid arg
    2: out of memory

every line of which would start a new section.  Again, probably not
what you were after.

Take a look around the source tree for examples.