Re: [RFC PATCH 3/5] kobject: Fix kernel-doc comment first line

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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



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