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From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
To: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scripts: kernel_doc: fixup reporting of function identifiers
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2018 07:56:42 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180216075642.2e56eb51@lwn.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1518521506-6770-1-git-send-email-rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

On Tue, 13 Feb 2018 13:31:46 +0200
Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:

> When function description includes brackets after the function name as
> suggested by Documentation/doc-guide/kernel-doc, the kernel-doc script
> omits the function name from "Scanning doc for" report.
> Extending match for identifier name with optional brackets fixes this
> issue.

So let me channel akpm here and ask: what are the user-visible effects of
this problem?  I ask because applying it doesn't make any difference in
the "make htmldocs" output here.  So I don't understand why you're
wanting to make this change.

Thanks,

jon

  reply	other threads:[~2018-02-16 14:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-02-13 11:31 [PATCH] scripts: kernel_doc: fixup reporting of function identifiers Mike Rapoport
2018-02-16 14:56 ` Jonathan Corbet [this message]
2018-02-16 16:36   ` Markus Heiser
2018-02-18 23:48     ` Jonathan Corbet

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