On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 10:16 PM, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Second, we lose support for the !C docproc directive to check >> that all kernel-doc comments in a file are used. This is probably >> something we'd like to have back in the future, but at this time I think >> it's an acceptable tradeoff wrt the gains. > > This is maybe a job for a separate tool. A related issue is the (fairly > frequent) "oh look, none of the comments in $FILE are being used" > realization that seems to happen fairly often. It would be nice to check > for that, but that's going to be hard to shoehorn into Sphinx. I think much more valuable would be a tool that checks whether comments are pulled in anywhere (for a given source file), over the entire tree. Very often entire subsystems carg-cult kernel-doc, but never use it in a .tmpl, which means 0-day won't notice, and neither anyone else. -Daniel -- Daniel Vetter Software Engineer, Intel Corporation +41 (0) 79 365 57 48 - http://blog.ffwll.ch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
