Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] scripts/kernel-doc: Auto-detect common code-blocks

[Jonathan Corbet]

On Thu, 10 May 2018 09:34:56 -0700
Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I think this is a bit fragile.  Why not just search for ':\n'?  Is
> there ever a case where we want to write:
> 
> /**
>  * foo is a bar:
>  * wibble
>  */
> and have wibble not be a code-block?

Yeah, we might want to write something like:

 - Leading off a bulleted list

 1) or a numbered list

for example.  That's why I was thinking of looking for explicit markers
for such lists.

It'll take some playing around with to have a hope of getting right,
methinks.

jon