Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: Added warnings in favor of strscpy().

From: Jonathan Corbet
Date: Mon Jul 22 2019 - 18:28:08 EST


On Mon, 22 Jul 2019 15:24:33 -0700
Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > If the functions themselves are fully defined in the .h file, I'd just add
> > the kerneldoc there as well. That's how it's usually done, and you want
> > to keep the documentation and the prototypes together.
>
> In this case, it's a macro and yes, the kernel-doc could
> easily be set around the macro in the .h, but my desire
> is to keep all the string function kernel-doc output
> together so it should be added to lib/string.c
>
> Are you suggesting I move all the lib/string.c kernel-doc
> to include/linux/string.h ?

If you want the *output* together, just put the kernel-doc directives
together in the RST file that pulls it all in. Or am I missing something
here?

Thanks,

jon