The patch titled kernel-doc: fix leading dot in man-mode output has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is kernel-doc-fix-leading-dot-in-man-mode-output.patch *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: kernel-doc: fix leading dot in man-mode output From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxx> If a parameter description begins with a '.', this indicates a "request" for "man" mode output (*roff), so it needs special handling. Problem case is in include/asm-i386/atomic.h for function atomic_add_unless(): * @u: ...unless v is equal to u. This parameter description is currently not printed in man mode output. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/kernel-doc | 7 ++++++- 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN scripts/kernel-doc~kernel-doc-fix-leading-dot-in-man-mode-output scripts/kernel-doc --- a/scripts/kernel-doc~kernel-doc-fix-leading-dot-in-man-mode-output +++ a/scripts/kernel-doc @@ -404,7 +404,12 @@ sub output_highlight { print $lineprefix, $blankline; } else { $line =~ s/\\\\\\/\&/g; - print $lineprefix, $line; + if ($output_mode eq "man" && substr($line, 0, 1) eq ".") { + print "\\&$line"; + } + else { + print $lineprefix, $line; + } } print "\n"; } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from randy.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxx are documentation-fix-the-explanation-of-kconfig-files.patch update-dontdiff-file.patch doc-clocksources.patch mm-merge-populate-and-nopage-into-fault-fixes-nonlinear.patch romfs-printk-format-warnings.patch add-pci_try_set_mwi.patch git-unionfs.patch add-pci_try_set_mwi-prism54pci.patch git-ipwireless_cs.patch doc-kernel-parameters-use-x86-32-tag-instead-of-ia-32.patch add-argv_split-fix.patch add-common-orderly_poweroff-fix.patch add-notime-boot-option.patch kernel-doc-add-tools-doc-in-makefile.patch kernel-doc-fix-unnamed-struct-union-warning.patch kernel-doc-strip-c99-comments.patch kernel-doc-fix-leading-dot-in-man-mode-output.patch kernel-doc-fix-leading-dot-in-man-mode-output-fix.patch profile-likely-unlikely-macros.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html