In message <20071030171436.GA15922@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Christoph Hellwig writes: > On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 08:22:40AM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote: > > They are just treated as part of the parameter explanation text. > > I don't see any problem with them. > > Well, it's completely inconsistant with any other kerneldoc.. If it doesn't hurt, and kerneldoc will present it as such, then I'd leave the [in/out] in place. Ioctls are the few places where you can have variables used as both input and output; so _somehow_ we need to capture that behavior. Erez. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html