On Sun, 13 Oct 2019, Changbin Du <[email protected]> wrote:
> The 'functions' directive is not only for functions, but also works for
> structs/unions. So the name is misleading. This patch renames it to
> 'specific', so now we have export/internal/specific directives to limit
> the functions/types to be included in documentation. Meanwhile we improved
> the warning message.
Agreed on "functions" being less than perfect. It directly exposes the
idiosyncrasies of scripts/kernel-doc. I'm not sure "specific" is any
better, though.
Perhaps "symbols" would be more self-explanatory. Or, actually make
"functions" only work on functions, and add a separate keyword for other
stuff. *shrug*
Seems like the patch is way too big. I'd probably add "symbols" (or
whatever) as a synonym for "functions" for starters, and convert
documents piecemeal, and finally drop the old one.
The scripts/kernel-doc change should be a patch of its own.
BR,
Jani.
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Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Graphics Center