From: Grant Seltzer <grantseltzer@xxxxxxxxx> This adds a section to the documentation for libbpf naming convention which describes how to document API features in libbpf, specifically the format of which API doc comments need to conform to. Signed-off-by: Grant Seltzer <grantseltzer@xxxxxxxxx> --- .../bpf/libbpf/libbpf_naming_convention.rst | 40 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 40 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/bpf/libbpf/libbpf_naming_convention.rst b/Documentation/bpf/libbpf/libbpf_naming_convention.rst index 9c68d5014ff1..5f42f172987a 100644 --- a/Documentation/bpf/libbpf/libbpf_naming_convention.rst +++ b/Documentation/bpf/libbpf/libbpf_naming_convention.rst @@ -150,6 +150,46 @@ mirror of the mainline's version of libbpf for a stand-alone build. However, all changes to libbpf's code base must be upstreamed through the mainline kernel tree. + +API documentation convention +============================ + +The libbpf API is documented via comments above definitions in +header files. These comments can be rendered by doxygen and sphinx +for well organized html output. This section describes the +convention in which these comments should be formated. + +Here is an example from btf.h: + +.. code-block:: c + + /** + * @brief **btf__new()** creates a new instance of a BTF object from the raw + * bytes of an ELF's BTF section + * @param data raw bytes + * @param size number of bytes passed in `data` + * @return new BTF object instance which has to be eventually freed with + * **btf__free()** + * + * On error, error-code-encoded-as-pointer is returned, not a NULL. To extract + * error code from such a pointer `libbpf_get_error()` should be used. If + * `libbpf_set_strict_mode(LIBBPF_STRICT_CLEAN_PTRS)` is enabled, NULL is + * returned on error instead. In both cases thread-local `errno` variable is + * always set to error code as well. + */ + +The comment must start with a block comment of the form '/**'. + +The documentation always starts with a @brief directive. This line is a short +description about this API. It starts with the name of the API, denoted in bold +like so: **api_name**. Please include an open and close parenthesis if this is a +function. Follow with the short description of the API. A longer form description +can be added below the last directive, at the bottom of the comment. + +Parameters are denoted with the @param directive, there should be one for each +parameter. If this is a function with a non-void return, use the @return directive +to document it. + License ------------------- -- 2.31.1
