--- Original Message --- > 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?). I don't know the history behind it. I.e., it happened before I began caring about it. ~Randy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-pci" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
