From f40b45a2e45b0f02aeedfcfbb28d8e2d4b8b86b1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Randy Dunlap Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 13:04:31 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] kernel-doc: preferred ending marker and examples Fix kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt to use */ as the ending marker in kernel-doc examples and state that */ is the preferred ending marker. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap Reported-by: Robert Love Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Documentation/kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt b/Documentation/kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt index d73fbd2b2b45..026ec7d57384 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt @@ -43,7 +43,8 @@ Only comments so marked will be considered by the kernel-doc scripts, and any comment so marked must be in kernel-doc format. Do not use "/**" to be begin a comment block unless the comment block contains kernel-doc formatted comments. The closing comment marker for -kernel-doc comments can be either "*/" or "**/". +kernel-doc comments can be either "*/" or "**/", but "*/" is +preferred in the Linux kernel tree. Kernel-doc comments should be placed just before the function or data structure being described. @@ -63,7 +64,7 @@ Example kernel-doc function comment: * comment lines. * * The longer description can have multiple paragraphs. - **/ + */ The first line, with the short description, must be on a single line. @@ -85,7 +86,7 @@ Example kernel-doc data structure comment. * perhaps with more lines and words. * * Longer description of this structure. - **/ + */ The kernel-doc function comments describe each parameter to the function, in order, with the @name lines.