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From: "Russell King (Oracle)" <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
To: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Cc: davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org, edumazet@google.com,
	pabeni@redhat.com, pablo@netfilter.org, richardcochran@gmail.com,
	johannes@sipsolutions.net, loic.poulain@linaro.org,
	ryazanov.s.a@gmail.com, dsahern@kernel.org,
	wintera@linux.ibm.com, hawk@kernel.org,
	ilias.apalodimas@linaro.org, jhs@mojatatu.com, jiri@resnulli.us,
	ecree.xilinx@gmail.com, przemyslaw.kitszel@intel.com,
	netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: reformat kdoc return statements
Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2024 16:23:59 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZzjHH-L-ylLe0YhU@shell.armlinux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20241115163612.904906-1-kuba@kernel.org>

On Fri, Nov 15, 2024 at 08:36:12AM -0800, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> kernel-doc -Wall warns about missing Return: statement for non-void
> functions. We have a number of kdocs in our headers which are missing
> the colon, IOW they use
>  * Return some value
> or
>  * Returns some value
> 
> Having the colon makes some sense, it should help kdoc parser avoid
> false positives. So add them. This is mostly done with a sed script,
> and removing the unnecessary cases (mostly the comments which aren't
> kdoc).

I wonder about this... I suspect it's going to be a constant battle to
ensure that docs use Return: or Returns: because it's not "natural"
when writing documentation.

Maybe the tooling should accept a sentence starting "Return(s?)" and
convert it to "Return(s):" in generated documentation?

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2024-11-16 16:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-11-15 16:36 [PATCH net-next] net: reformat kdoc return statements Jakub Kicinski
2024-11-15 16:45 ` Johannes Berg
2024-11-15 18:46 ` Jakub Kicinski
2024-11-16 14:28 ` Richard Cochran
2024-11-16 16:23 ` Russell King (Oracle) [this message]
2024-11-19  0:33   ` Jakub Kicinski
2024-11-19 14:42     ` Jonathan Corbet
2024-11-18  0:51 ` Sergey Ryazanov
2024-11-18 10:32 ` Edward Cree
2024-11-19  9:07 ` Alexandra Winter

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