The documentation states that:
make W=n
can be used to verify the documentation format. This is true for .c
files but not for headers [1].
Modify the documentation to specify that headers files are not covered
by make W=n and that these need to be checked separately with
scripts/kernel-doc.
[1] commit 3a025e1d1c ("Add optional check for bad kernel-doc comments")
Link: https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/c/3a025e1d1c2e
Signed-off-by: Vincent Mailhol <mailhol@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <20251225-doc-format-check-v1-1-dff637a4d275@kernel.org>
Since 2014 kernel-doc has supported describing object-like macros
but it is not documented anywhere. I should have required some
documentation for it when I merged the patch. :(
There are currently only 3 uses of this (all in DRM headers, in
include/drm/*.h).
Add object-like macro kernel-doc documentation now so that more may
know about it and use it.
Fixes: cbb4d3e651 ("scripts/kernel-doc: handle object-like macros")
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240107012400.32587-1-rdunlap@infradead.org
kernel-doc.rst has two 1st level section titles of "Writing
kernel-doc comments" and "Including kernel-doc comments".
Therefore, rather than using the first one, put a meta title
of "Kernel-doc comments" for the title of the resulting HTML
page by using the "title" directive.
Signed-off-by: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/15636c13-7fa2-f973-6d3d-361222b839ef@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Currently, there's no way to exclude identifiers from
a kernel-doc markup. Add support for it.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
The 'functions' directive is not only for functions, but also works for
structs/unions. So the name is misleading. This patch renames it to
'identifiers', which specific the functions/types to be included in
documentation. We keep the old name as an alias of the new one before
all documentation are updated.
Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
fix the disjunction by replacing "of" with "or".
Signed-off-by: Sheriff Esseson <sheriffesseson@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
"If no *function* if specified" should instead be
"If no *function* is specified".
Reported-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Frank Rowand <frank.rowand@sony.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
(1) The command to generate man pages is truncated in the pdf version
of the document. Reformat the command into multiple lines to prevent
the truncation.
(2) Older versions of git do not support all variants of pathspec
syntax. Provide commands to generate man pages for various
alternate syntax.
Signed-off-by: Frank Rowand <frank.rowand@sony.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
In the Function documentation Section of kernel-doc.rst
there is a function_name() function as an example for
how to make a comment about a function.
But at the end of that example there is a reference to foobar
instead of function_name.
I think that should rather be function_name, because that
was the placeholder the whole example was using.
Signed-off-by: Joris Gutjahr <joris.gutjahr@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
When kernel-doc:: specified in .rst document without explicit directives,
it outputs both comment and DOC: sections. If a DOC: section was explicitly
included in the same document it will be duplicated. For example, the
output generated for Documentation/core-api/idr.rst [1] has "IDA
description" in the "IDA usage" section and in the middle of the API
reference.
This patch enables using "functions" directive without parameters to output
all the documentation excluding DOC: sections.
[1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.17/core-api/idr.html
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Currently there is no automated checking for kernel-doc comments except
running 'kernel-doc -v -none <filename>'. Mention the possibility to run
kernel-doc to verify formatting of the comments in the kernel-doc guide.
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
