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authorRandy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>2009-02-11 16:04:31 -0500
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-02-11 17:25:36 -0500
commitf40b45a2e45b0f02aeedfcfbb28d8e2d4b8b86b1 (patch)
tree66fc1e34466c1f99dd00702f4eff06174ca3d195 /Documentation
parent2e9c23724328ae4e56c42a35a717a956d7d3001d (diff)
kernel-doc: preferred ending marker and examples
Fix kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt to use */ as the ending marker in kernel-doc examples and state that */ is the preferred ending marker. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Reported-by: Robert Love <robert.w.love@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt7
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt b/Documentation/kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt
index d73fbd2b2b45..026ec7d57384 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt
@@ -43,7 +43,8 @@ Only comments so marked will be considered by the kernel-doc scripts,
43and any comment so marked must be in kernel-doc format. Do not use 43and any comment so marked must be in kernel-doc format. Do not use
44"/**" to be begin a comment block unless the comment block contains 44"/**" to be begin a comment block unless the comment block contains
45kernel-doc formatted comments. The closing comment marker for 45kernel-doc formatted comments. The closing comment marker for
46kernel-doc comments can be either "*/" or "**/". 46kernel-doc comments can be either "*/" or "**/", but "*/" is
47preferred in the Linux kernel tree.
47 48
48Kernel-doc comments should be placed just before the function 49Kernel-doc comments should be placed just before the function
49or data structure being described. 50or data structure being described.
@@ -63,7 +64,7 @@ Example kernel-doc function comment:
63 * comment lines. 64 * comment lines.
64 * 65 *
65 * The longer description can have multiple paragraphs. 66 * The longer description can have multiple paragraphs.
66 **/ 67 */
67 68
68The first line, with the short description, must be on a single line. 69The first line, with the short description, must be on a single line.
69 70
@@ -85,7 +86,7 @@ Example kernel-doc data structure comment.
85 * perhaps with more lines and words. 86 * perhaps with more lines and words.
86 * 87 *
87 * Longer description of this structure. 88 * Longer description of this structure.
88 **/ 89 */
89 90
90The kernel-doc function comments describe each parameter to the 91The kernel-doc function comments describe each parameter to the
91function, in order, with the @name lines. 92function, in order, with the @name lines.