Re: [Qemu-devel] Introducing GSoC project: API Documentation Generation

[Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>]

On Fri, May 24, 2019 at 08:34:23PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 23/05/19 14:20, John Snow wrote:
> > OK, if that's where we're at! I just saw the RFC from Peter Maydell and
> > assumed we were a little further along the decision making process, but
> > maybe not. I'll stay tuned.
> 
> For the decision making, yes; I think there's consensus to use
> kerneldoc.  For the "debugging and seeing if anything has changed in 2.5
> years", no.
> 
> Testing the patch that Eduardo posted will help Gabriel, Eduardo and
> everyone else decide whether to patch kerneldoc or rather change the API
> doc comments style.  (Personally I am in favor of patching; the
> different coding conventions make using vanilla kerneldoc awkward, and
> there are several thousands of lines of existing doc comments which
> would require a transition.)

I'd prefer to fix our doc comments instead of patching kerneldoc,
whenever possible.  We don't even have a consistent doc comment
style in QEMU.

-- 
Eduardo