Re: [PATCH 09/16] i2c: busses: i2c-mxs: Demote barely half complete kernel-doc header

[Lee Jones]

On Fri, 04 Jun 2021, Wolfram Sang wrote:

> 
> > IMHO, we wouldn't want to foster the impression that it's okay to
> > provide a non-determined effort, safe in the knowledge that someone
> > will come along later and finish the job for them at a later date.
> 
> Right.
> 
> The first lesson from that is that maintainers should require
> documentation of the fields when they get added. This was my oversight
> because it was back then not reported by checkers, probably. I am sorry.
> It annoys me, too.

Sure.

When I started this work, there were 18k+ W=1 warnings in the kernel.
Now there are more like 3k.  I don't think anyone is to blame per say,
it's just something that people haven't particularly cared about up
until this point.

One of my main aims is to clean-up W=1s to the point where enabling
them would become normal practice, rather than the situation we're in
presently where enabling them just dominates the build-log, making
them more trouble than they're worth.

> If I notice that someone updates a driver which doc-errors, then I ask
> if that could be fixed by this person, too. It usually works. Not for
> drivers without attention, of course. But this is why I don't mind
> doc-errors to stay.

I'd rather they didn't say.

This would void the main aim of this effort.

> If this is considered problematic, then I'd suggest to remove the kernel
> doc headers like you did, but add a comment like:
> 
>  * FIXME: add missing fields and reenable kernel-doc
> 
> To make sure, it is obvious even by glimpsing through the code that
> there is work needed.
> 
> Can we agree on that?

It's the first time this has been requested, but it's your train-set
and I will do whatever you ask.

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Lee Jones [李琼斯]
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