[PATCH] doc: Document the new inline struct member kernel-doc style

From: Daniel Vetter
Date: Thu Nov 17 2016 - 05:19:57 EST


We don't just need better doc toolchains, we also need better docs for
our doc toolchain!

v2: Make sure we don't have foo twice (Jani).

Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-doc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/kernel-documentation.rst | 7 ++++++-
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-documentation.rst b/Documentation/kernel-documentation.rst
index 10cc7ddb6235..0dd17069bc0b 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-documentation.rst
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-documentation.rst
@@ -484,7 +484,10 @@ span multiple lines. The continuation lines may contain indentation.
In-line member documentation comments
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

-The structure members may also be documented in-line within the definition::
+The structure members may also be documented in-line within the definition.
+There are two styles, single-line comments where both the opening ``/**`` and
+closing ``*/`` are on the same line, and multi-line comments where they are each
+on a line of their own, like all other kernel-doc comments::

/**
* struct foo - Brief description.
@@ -502,6 +505,8 @@ The structure members may also be documented in-line within the definition::
* Here, the member description may contain several paragraphs.
*/
int baz;
+ /** @foobar: Single line description. */
+ int foobar;
}

Private members
--
2.10.2