Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 18 Feb 2018 16:48:05 -0700 | From | Jonathan Corbet <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] scripts: kernel_doc: fixup reporting of function identifiers |
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On Fri, 16 Feb 2018 17:36:07 +0100 Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@darmarit.de> wrote:
> > So let me channel akpm here and ask: what are the user-visible effects of > > this problem? I ask because applying it doesn't make any difference in > > the "make htmldocs" output here. So I don't understand why you're > > wanting to make this change. > > Use kernel-doc -v and take a look on the info-messages. > > In Documentation/doc-guide/kernel-doc we recommend to use > > /** > * foo() - lorem ipsum > > to tag functions, but if you do so, the info message is broken, > the function name is missed at the end of the message: > > ../test123.c:2: info: Scanning doc for
OK, so I guess that message is the only effect of this bug. Oh well, I'll go ahead and apply the patch, thanks.
jon
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