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From: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>
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Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>:
> > I'd be happy to take another swing at this problem once the kbuild-2.5/CML2
> > transition is done.  But I don't think we should let it block us from
> > having the good results we can get from that change.
> 
> It would certainly fit nicely with the existing metadata. We already rip out
> code comments via kernel-doc, and extending it to rip out
> 
> 	-	Help text
> 	-	Web site
> 	-	Version information
> 	-	Man page for the driver
> 	-	Module options
> 
> etc, shouldn't be too challenging. Ok so kernel-doc is in perl and ugly perl
> but if someone hates it enough to rewrite it in python thats a win too 8)

I've been thinking about doing that very thing anyway.  Part of my master
plan to reduce the tree's external dependencies.
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