On Thu, May 02, 2019 at 12:31:40PM +1000, Tobin C. Harding wrote: > kernel-doc comments have a prescribed format. This includes parenthesis > on the function name. To be _particularly_ correct we should also > capitalise the brief description and terminate it with a period. Why do think capitalisation and full stop is required for the function description? Sure, the example in the current doc happen to use that, but I'm not sure that's intended as a prescription. The old kernel-doc nano-HOWTO specifically did not use this: https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt Johan