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From: bjorn@mork.no (Bjørn Mork)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: why is "const u32 (*tab)[256]" not kerneldoc-able?
Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2015 15:46:13 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <874mr3uk7e.fsf@nemi.mork.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.11.1502030839290.6427@localhost> (Robert P. J. Day's message of "Tue, 3 Feb 2015 08:44:50 -0500 (EST)")

"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> writes:

>   actually, i just found where this is a known issue:
>
> http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-doc/msg09364.html

Probably because it's a rare construct.

But looking closer at this, trying to understand why the simple test
using

  scripts/kernel-doc lib/crc32.c |man -l -

seemed to sort of work, I found that your main problem isn't really the
lack of kernel-doc support for array pointer parameters.  It's a simple
mismatch between the documented and the exported functions.

scripts/docproc will only generate docs for exported symbols.
lib/crc32.c has no documented *and* exported functions, and thats why
the output is empty.  The array pointer is a red herring.


Bj?rn

  reply	other threads:[~2015-02-03 14:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-02-03 12:19 why is "const u32 (*tab)[256]" not kerneldoc-able? Robert P. J. Day
2015-02-03 13:15 ` Malte Vesper
2015-02-03 14:09   ` Robert P. J. Day
2015-02-03 13:18 ` Bjørn Mork
2015-02-03 13:36   ` Robert P. J. Day
2015-02-03 13:38   ` Bjørn Mork
2015-02-03 13:44     ` Robert P. J. Day
2015-02-03 14:46       ` Bjørn Mork [this message]
2015-02-03 14:50         ` Robert P. J. Day

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