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Date:   Sun, 18 Feb 2018 16:48:05 -0700
From:   Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
To:     Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@darmarit.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] scripts: kernel_doc: fixup reporting of function
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On Fri, 16 Feb 2018 17:36:07 +0100
Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@darmarit.de> wrote:

> > 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.  
> 
> Use kernel-doc -v and take a look on the info-messages.
> 
> In Documentation/doc-guide/kernel-doc we recommend to use
> 
> /**
>  * foo() - lorem ipsum
> 
> to tag functions, but if you do so, the info message is broken,
> the function name is missed at the end of the message:
> 
>  ../test123.c:2: info: Scanning doc for  

OK, so I guess that message is the only effect of this bug.  Oh well,
I'll go ahead and apply the patch, thanks.

jon