On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 16:14 -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote: > On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 09:07:45 +1000 Michael Ellerman wrote: > > > On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 09:27 -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote: > > > From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > > > > Fix kernel-doc comments so that they don't produce errors. > > > Also cut some extraneous copy-paste text. > > > > > > Error(linhead//drivers/pci/pci.c:1133): duplicate section name 'Description' > > > Error(linhead//drivers/pci/pci.c:1189): duplicate section name 'Description' > > > > But now the description lines exceed 80 columns, and with longer > > Yes, I'm pretty well aware of that. :( > This is one of the places where we tolerate that, while not enjoying it. > > This is a request that akpm has also made, and it makes some sense, and it's > on my long list of (volunteer) doc work to do... Sure. > > ps. I did look at changing kerneldoc to do that myself, but whereas > > previously I thought I didn't really know perl, now I /know/ I totally > > don't know perl ;) > > Yes, I understand that comment. ;) > That's part of the problem, of course. > I.e., if it were straightforward, it would probably already be done. I guess there's also a good reason why the kernel implements its own doco-from-c-comments extraction tool, rather than using something that already exists (doxygen?). cheers -- Michael Ellerman OzLabs, IBM Australia Development Lab wwweb: http://michael.ellerman.id.au phone: +61 2 6212 1183 (tie line 70 21183) We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children. - S.M.A.R.T Person
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