Re: [PATCH] DocBook documentation for IIO

[Daniel Baluta]

Hi Randy,

On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 10:13 PM, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.

This sounds like a good plan.

>
> 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.

We now about the warnings. Cristina is already working on a patch series to fix
them.

thanks,
Daniel.
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