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From:   Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
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On Thu, Feb 17, 2022 at 10:04:23AM -0700, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> *I* prefer Python, and the Sphinx side of things is necessarily in
> Python, so I'd be happy to see kernel-doc move over.  That said, others
> certainly disagree.
> 
> Markus's work was here:
> 
>   https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1485287564-24205-1-git-send-email-markus.heiser@darmarit.de/
> 
> At the time, we were just trying to get the RST transition done, and
> swapping out the kernel-doc script seemed like a major distraction that
> we didn't need, so this never got looked at as seriously as I would have
> liked.

Personally, I'd like to see us switch over to
https://github.com/jnikula/hawkmoth

but I don't have time to work on the rough edges.  I really hate the
kernel-doc style; I think it makes us write very stilted documentation,
full of parameter descriptions like:

 function() - Do the thing to a page.
 @page: The page.

which really serves nobody.  Being able to write:

 function() - Do the thing to @page

is easier to both write and read.