Re: Documentation update

From: Jeff Garzik
Date: Thu Mar 03 2005 - 06:36:20 EST


Martin Waitz wrote:
Hoi :)

I'm still working on fixing and updating the Linux DocBook
Documentation. My tree currently consists of several fixes
to the Documentation generation, some additional kernel-doc
entries and a move from SGML to valid XML.

Please have a look at it and consider merging.


Overall, looks pretty good.

Comments:

1) As the author of tulip-user and via-audio docbooks, I can say that they are out of date and should be deleted.


2) Very happy to see conversion to XML.


3) In general, I'm happy that someone is giving the docbook docs some love.


4) Occasionally code movement (not just comment updates) are required, such as:

@@ -1248,6 +1249,9 @@
return retval;
}
+
+extern const char *global_mode_option;
+
/**
* video_setup - process command line options
* @options: string of options
@@ -1261,9 +1265,6 @@
* Returns zero.
*
*/
-
-extern const char *global_mode_option;
-
int __init video_setup(char *options)
{
int i, global = 0;

Although I do not NAK this change, I am curious if kernel-doc can be fixed so that this sort of change is not necessary.


5) Although it is a pain to do this in BitKeeper, now that you've checked everything in, it might be better to send the code changes via the individual maintainers.


6) I would feel more comfortable if this spent some time in Andrew Morton's -mm, before going upstream.

Regards,

Jeff


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