On Wed, 4 Oct 2017 08:48:38 -0300 Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Right now, it is not possible to document nested struct and nested unions. > kernel-doc simply ignore them. > > Add support to document them. So I've finally found some time to actually look at these; sorry for being so absent from the discussion. I plead $EXCUSES... Some overall impressions: - Seems like something we want. - I love hacking all the cruft out of kernel-doc; I've been meaning to do that for a bit. - It would sure be nice to restore proper man-page generation rather than documenting a hack with a perl script. Someday. I have one real complaint, though: with these patches applied, a "make htmldocs" generates about 5500 (!) more warnings than it did before. Over the last couple of months, I put a bit of focused time into reducing warnings, and managed to get rid of 20-30 of them. Now I feel despondent. I really don't want to add that much noise to the docs build; I think it will defeat any hope of cleaning up the warnings we already have. I wonder if we could suppress warnings about nested structs by default, and add a flag or envar to turn them back on for those who want them? In truth, now that I look, the real problem is that the warnings are repeated many times - as in, like 100 times: > ./include/net/cfg80211.h:4115: warning: Function parameter or member 'wext.ibss' not described in 'wireless_dev' > ./include/net/cfg80211.h:4115: warning: Function parameter or member 'wext.ibss' not described in 'wireless_dev' <107 instances deleted...> > ./include/net/cfg80211.h:4115: warning: Function parameter or member 'wext.ibss' not described in 'wireless_dev' That's not something that used to happen, and is certainly not helpful. Figuring that out would help a lot. Can I get you to take a look at what's going on here? Thanks, jon
