Re: [PATCH 1/4] scripts/kernel-doc: Remove duplicated DOC: start handling

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On Thu, 02 Jun 2016, Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 11:39 AM, Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 9:16 AM, Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> On Thu, 02 Jun 2016, Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> Further up in the state machinery we switch from STATE_NAME to
>>>> STATE_DOCBLOCK when we match /$doc_block/. Which means this
>>>> block of code here is entirely unreachable.
>>>>
>>>> Nuke it.
>>>
>>> kernel-doc currently supports multiple DOC: lines in a single kernel-doc
>>> comment, and this breaks it. This:
>>>
>>> /**
>>>  * DOC: foo
>>>  *
>>>  * Foo
>>>  *
>>>  * DOC: bar
>>>  *
>>>  * Bar
>>>  */
>>>
>>> currently turns into sections foo and bar, with this patch this becomes
>>> one section "foo", with literal "DOC: bar" in the content as normal
>>> text.
>>>
>>> I don't know if we actually have that kind of comments anywhere, but
>>> since this change doesn't really help you all that much with the
>>> follow-up, I'd just drop it.
>>
>> Fine with me, just wanted to drop the cargo-culting factor a bit. I'm
>> too lazy to write a stateful script to check whether we have any place
>> that uses the above ;-) If anyone can do this quickly, would be
>> awesom.
>
> I've unlazied and done a full audit using
>
> git grep -c " * DOC:" | grep -v ":1$"
>
> and then auditing all the files with more than one DOC: section. They
> _all_ use separate comment blocks, even if there's nothing in between
> them. Your above example doesn't exist. Can you pls merge my patch?

I did a double check plus a full output comparison before/after with all
the tmpl files converted. No differences. And I totally agree having
multiple DOC: sections per a kernel-doc comment is not something we
should recommend either. KISS.

Pushed to my sphinx-for-docs-next branch.

BR,
Jani.


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Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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