[PATCH] doc-guide: kernel-doc: add comment about formatting verification

From: Mike Rapoport
Date: Tue Feb 20 2018 - 09:54:59 EST


Currently there is no automated checking for kernel-doc comments except
running 'kernel-doc -v -none <filename>'. Mention the possibility to run
kernel-doc to verify formatting of the comments in the kernel-doc guide.

Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/doc-guide/kernel-doc.rst | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/doc-guide/kernel-doc.rst b/Documentation/doc-guide/kernel-doc.rst
index c6c3297..bb5ed6d 100644
--- a/Documentation/doc-guide/kernel-doc.rst
+++ b/Documentation/doc-guide/kernel-doc.rst
@@ -44,6 +44,12 @@ that somebody changing the code will also change the documentation. The
overview kernel-doc comments may be placed anywhere at the top indentation
level.

+Running the ``kernel-doc`` tool with increased verbosity and without actual
+output generation may be used to verify proper formating of the
+documentation comments. For example::
+
+ scripts/kernel-doc -v -none drivers/foo/bar.c
+
Function documentation
----------------------

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