Re: [PATCH] DocBook documentation for IIO

From: Randy Dunlap
Date: Fri Jul 10 2015 - 15:14:08 EST


On 07/08/15 05:04, Daniel Baluta wrote:
> In our effort to support vendors writing drivers for their own
> sensors we introduce IIO documentation in DocBook format.
>
> It documents Industrial I/O core including IIO devices, buffers, triggers and
> triggered buffers. It also offers a short list of online resources
> for the IIO subsystem.
>
> This is far from being complete any suggestions are welcomed. At a first
> glance we also need to add documentation for events. We are also working
> on auto-generating template drivers based on the type of the IIO sensors.

Hi Daniel,

This is a good start. Might as well get it merged and keep improving it.

Here are a few nits:

Warning(..//drivers/iio/industrialio-buffer.c:1145): cannot understand function prototype: 'struct iio_demux_table '

>> drop the "()" in the first line:
* struct iio_demux_table() - table describing demux memcpy ops


In iio_buffer_get() and iio_buffer_put(), change "may be NULL"
to "may be %NULL".

In linux/iio/iio.h, struct iio_chan_spec, the sub-fields of @scan_type confuse
scripts/kernel-doc. There isn't really a good way to do what you are trying
to do (AFAIK). The problem is that things like "realbits:" (ending with a colon)
cause kernel-doc to think that that is some special comment and it generates
a separate paragraph for it at the end of the struct. I changed all of those
colons to hyphens, but then kernel-doc just runs all of those sub-field
comment descriptions together... so I added a ';' at the end of each one, but
it doesn't look nice.


> Generated html files should be available online here http://dbaluta.github.io/
> or you could run make htmldocs in the root of your kernel repo to get them.
>
> Daniel Baluta (1):
> DocBook: Add initial documentation for IIO
>
> Documentation/DocBook/Makefile | 2 +-
> Documentation/DocBook/iio.tmpl | 588 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 2 files changed, 589 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> create mode 100644 Documentation/DocBook/iio.tmpl
>


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~Randy
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