Re: [RFC PATCH 3/5] kobject: Fix kernel-doc comment first line

[Johan Hovold]

On Tue, May 07, 2019 at 09:00:35AM +1000, Tobin C. Harding wrote:
> On Fri, May 03, 2019 at 09:56:07AM +0200, Johan Hovold wrote:

> > This isn't about any particular subsystem, but more the tendency of
> > people to make up random rules and try to to force it on others. It's
> > churn, and also makes things like code forensics and backports harder
> > for no good reason.
> 
> Points noted.
> 
> > Both capitalisation styles are about as common for the function
> > description judging from a quick grep, but only 10% or so use a full
> > stop ('.'). And forcing the use of sentence case and full stop for
> > things like
> > 
> > 	/**
> > 	 * maar_init() - Initialise MAARs.
> > 
> > or
> > 
> > 	* @instr: Operational instruction.
> > 
> > would be not just ugly, but wrong (as these are not independent
> > clauses).
> 
> You are correct here.

Actually, I may have been wrong about the first example (imperative),
but the second still stands.

> Thanks for taking the time to flesh out your argument Johan, I am now in
> agreement with you :)

Good to hear! :)

Johan