Re: [PATCH v2 29/38] kernel-doc: limit the "section header:" detection to a select few

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On Thu, 09 Jun 2016, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sat,  4 Jun 2016 14:37:30 +0300
> Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> kernel-doc currently identifies anything matching "section header:"
>> (specifically a string of word characters and spaces followed by a
>> colon) as a new section in the documentation comment, and renders the
>> section header accordingly.
>> 
>> Unfortunately, this turns all uses of colon into sections, mostly
>> unintentionally.
>
> I've been looking at how the patch series changes (traditional) htmldocs
> generation, and this one is responsible for a lot of them.  Those changes
> are almost all good!  There is a lot of cruft out there.  Just FWIW, I'm
> going to add a patch putting "note|examples|" into the list, since those
> appear to be intentional.

Heh, you scared me a bit until the "almost all good" part. :)

I'm fine with adding more to the list, although I intentionally tried to
keep them to a minimum initially. I had this vague idea of turning some
of the "note" and "warning" type things into rst admonitions [1] later
on, but I don't really have a concrete plan yet.

BR,
Jani.

[1] http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/ref/rst/directives.html#admonitions

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