Re: [PATCH] pci kernel-doc fatal error

[Michael Ellerman]

On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 16:14 -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 09:07:45 +1000 Michael Ellerman wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 09:27 -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> > > From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > 
> > > Fix kernel-doc comments so that they don't produce errors.
> > > Also cut some extraneous copy-paste text.
> > > 
> > > Error(linhead//drivers/pci/pci.c:1133): duplicate section name 'Description'
> > > Error(linhead//drivers/pci/pci.c:1189): duplicate section name 'Description'
> > 
> > But now the description lines exceed 80 columns, and with longer
> 
> Yes, I'm pretty well aware of that.  :(
> This is one of the places where we tolerate that, while not enjoying it.
> 
> This is a request that akpm has also made, and it makes some sense, and it's
> on my long list of (volunteer) doc work to do...

Sure.

> > ps. I did look at changing kerneldoc to do that myself, but whereas
> > previously I thought I didn't really know perl, now I /know/ I totally
> > don't know perl ;)
> 
> Yes, I understand that comment.  ;)
> That's part of the problem, of course.
> I.e., if it were straightforward, it would probably already be done.

I guess there's also a good reason why the kernel implements its own
doco-from-c-comments extraction tool, rather than using something that
already exists (doxygen?).

cheers

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