Re: Kernel docs: muddying the waters a bit

[Jani Nikula]

On Wed, 04 May 2016, Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> but I think this will not by very helpful, as long as you miss 
> a similar ".tmpl" workflow for reST documents.
>
> I'am working on a reST directive (named: "kernel-doc") to provide a
> similar ".tmpl" workflow within plain reST. The first step towards
> is done with (my) modified kernel-doc script ...
>
> * https://github.com/return42/sphkerneldoc/blob/master/scripts/kernel-doc#L1736
>
> which produce reST from source code comments. E.g. this content is 
> generated with it.

What do you mean by ".tmpl workflow"?

I'd be *very* hesitant about adding the kind of things you do in
reformat_block_rst to kernel-doc. IMO the extraction from kernel-doc
comments must be as simple as possible with basically pass-through of
the comment blocks to sphinx. Specifically, do not attempt to detect and
parse elements like lists in kernel-doc.


BR,
Jani.


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Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Technology Center