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To:     Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net/core: Remove comment quote for
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From:   Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com>
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Hi,

On Wed, 4 May 2022 11:28:51 +0700,
Bagas Sanjaya wrote:
> On 5/4/22 08:03, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
[...]
>> Why drop almost half of the comment if the problem is just the ----
>> banner?
> 
> I can't think of preserving delineation between actual documentation
> and the quote without messing up kernel-doc.
Actually, it is possible.

See "Block Quotes" in ReST documentation at:
https://docutils.sourceforge.io/docs/ref/rst/restructuredtext.html#block-quotes

kernel-doc is basically ReST within comment blocks with several kernel-doc
specific implicit/explicit markers.

        Thanks, Akira

> 
> Actually the "--BLG" signature is the culprit.