Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] mm/sparse: Clean up the obsolete code comment

Baoquan He
2019-03-26T09:43:53Z

On 03/26/19 at 05:36pm, Chao Fan wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 05:30:57PM +0800, Baoquan He wrote:
> >On 03/26/19 at 10:23am, Michal Hocko wrote:
> >> On Tue 26-03-19 17:02:24, Baoquan He wrote:
> >> > The code comment above sparse_add_one_section() is obsolete and
> >> > incorrect, clean it up and write new one.
> >> >
> >> > Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
> >>
> >> Please note that you need /** to start a kernel doc. Other than that.
> >
> >I didn't find a template in coding-style.rst, and saw someone is using
> >/*, others use /**. I will use '/**' instead. Thanks for telling.
>
> How to format kernel-doc comments
> ---------------------------------
>
> The opening comment mark ``/**`` is used for kernel-doc comments. The
> ``kernel-doc`` tool will extract comments marked this way. The rest of
> the comment is formatted like a normal multi-line comment with a column
> of asterisks on the left side, closing with ``*/`` on a line by itself.
>
> See Documentation/doc-guide/kernel-doc.rst for more details.
> Hope that can help you.

Great, there's a specific kernel-doc file. Thanks, I will update and
repost this one with '/**'.