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From: Henne <henne@nachtwindheim.de>
To: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [KJ] [PATCH] kernel-doc in drivers/base/core.c corrections
Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2006 22:53:19 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <44AAF15F.2030208@nachtwindheim.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44AA5740.8050906@nachtwindheim.de>

From: Henrik Kretzschmar <henne@nachtwindheim.de>

Corrects the kerneldocs for device_create() and device_destroy()
with an eye on coding style, grammar and readability.
Signed-off-by: Henrik Kretzschmar <henne@nachtwindheim.de>
---

--- linux-2.6.17-git22/drivers/base/core.c	2006-07-04 11:12:06.000000000 +0200
+++ linux/drivers/base/core.c	2006-07-05 00:45:03.000000000 +0200
@@ -559,20 +559,20 @@

 /**
  * device_create - creates a device and registers it with sysfs
- * @cs: pointer to the struct class that this device should be registered to.
- * @parent: pointer to the parent struct device of this new device, if any.
- * @dev: the dev_t for the char device to be added.
- * @fmt: string for the class device's name
+ * @class: pointer to the struct class that this device should be registered to
+ * @parent: pointer to the parent struct device of this new device, if any
+ * @devt: the dev_t for the char device to be added
+ * @fmt: string for the device's name
  *
- * This function can be used by char device classes.  A struct
- * device will be created in sysfs, registered to the specified
- * class.
+ * This function can be used by char device classes.  A struct device
+ * will be created in sysfs, registered to the specified class.
+ *
  * A "dev" file will be created, showing the dev_t for the device, if
  * the dev_t is not 0,0.
- * If a pointer to a parent struct device is passed in, the newly
- * created struct device will be a child of that device in sysfs.  The
- * pointer to the struct device will be returned from the call.  Any
- * further sysfs files that might be required can be created using this
+ * If a pointer to a parent struct device is passed in, the newly created
+ * struct device will be a child of that device in sysfs.
+ * The pointer to the struct device will be returned from the call.
+ * Any further sysfs files that might be required can be created using this
  * pointer.
  *
  * Note: the struct class passed to this function must have previously
@@ -620,11 +620,11 @@

 /**
  * device_destroy - removes a device that was created with device_create()
- * @class: the pointer to the struct class that this device was registered * with.
- * @dev: the dev_t of the device that was previously registered.
+ * @class: pointer to the struct class that this device was registered with
+ * @devt: the dev_t of the device that was previously registered
  *
- * This call unregisters and cleans up a class device that was created with a
- * call to class_device_create()
+ * This call unregisters and cleans up a device that was created with a
+ * call to device_create().
  */
 void device_destroy(struct class *class, dev_t devt)
 {

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2006-07-04 22:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-07-04 11:55 [KJ] [PATCH] kernel-doc in drivers/base/core.c corrections Henne
2006-07-04 22:25 ` Greg KH
2006-07-04 22:53 ` Henne [this message]

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