Explain that a kernel-doc :identifiers: line can refer to a struct,
union, enum, or typedef as well as functions.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241119203201.110953-1-rdunlap@infradead.org
scripts/kernel-doc accepts "Return:" or "Returns:" for describing the
return value of a function or function-like macro, so document this
alternative spelling and use it in an example.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Suggested-by: Dmitry Baryshkov <dmitry.baryshkov@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240522224726.10498-1-rdunlap@infradead.org
Since 2014 kernel-doc has supported describing object-like macros
but it is not documented anywhere. I should have required some
documentation for it when I merged the patch. :(
There are currently only 3 uses of this (all in DRM headers, in
include/drm/*.h).
Add object-like macro kernel-doc documentation now so that more may
know about it and use it.
Fixes: cbb4d3e651 ("scripts/kernel-doc: handle object-like macros")
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240107012400.32587-1-rdunlap@infradead.org
Most of the documentation for Rust is written within the source code
itself, as it is idiomatic for Rust projects. This applies to both
the shared infrastructure at `rust/` as well as any other Rust module
(e.g. drivers) written across the kernel.
However, these documents contain general information that does not
fit particularly well in the source code, like the Quick Start guide.
It also contains a few other small changes elsewhere in the
documentation folder.
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Co-developed-by: Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@gmail.com>
Co-developed-by: Finn Behrens <me@kloenk.de>
Signed-off-by: Finn Behrens <me@kloenk.de>
Co-developed-by: Adam Bratschi-Kaye <ark.email@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Adam Bratschi-Kaye <ark.email@gmail.com>
Co-developed-by: Wedson Almeida Filho <wedsonaf@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Wedson Almeida Filho <wedsonaf@google.com>
Co-developed-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Co-developed-by: Sven Van Asbroeck <thesven73@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Sven Van Asbroeck <thesven73@gmail.com>
Co-developed-by: Wu XiangCheng <bobwxc@email.cn>
Signed-off-by: Wu XiangCheng <bobwxc@email.cn>
Co-developed-by: Gary Guo <gary@garyguo.net>
Signed-off-by: Gary Guo <gary@garyguo.net>
Co-developed-by: Boris-Chengbiao Zhou <bobo1239@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Boris-Chengbiao Zhou <bobo1239@web.de>
Co-developed-by: Yuki Okushi <jtitor@2k36.org>
Signed-off-by: Yuki Okushi <jtitor@2k36.org>
Co-developed-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu@kernel.org>
Co-developed-by: Daniel Xu <dxu@dxuuu.xyz>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Xu <dxu@dxuuu.xyz>
Co-developed-by: Julian Merkle <me@jvmerkle.de>
Signed-off-by: Julian Merkle <me@jvmerkle.de>
Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
kernel-doc.rst has two 1st level section titles of "Writing
kernel-doc comments" and "Including kernel-doc comments".
Therefore, rather than using the first one, put a meta title
of "Kernel-doc comments" for the title of the resulting HTML
page by using the "title" directive.
Signed-off-by: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/15636c13-7fa2-f973-6d3d-361222b839ef@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Promote "Writing kernel-doc comments" heading to page title, in
accordance to kernel documentation guidelines. Also promote "Including
kernel-doc comments" heading because both headings deserve their own
chapters in PDF output.
There is no differences in the resulting output except formatting
semantics.
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com>
Cc: Vinod Koul <vkoul@kernel.org>
Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Cc: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Currently, there's no way to exclude identifiers from
a kernel-doc markup. Add support for it.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Update text and examples in the "Cross-referencing from
reStructuredText" section to reflect that no additional syntax is needed
anymore.
Signed-off-by: Nícolas F. R. A. Prado <nfraprado@protonmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200903005747.3900333-3-nfraprado@protonmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
The 'functions' directive is not only for functions, but also works for
structs/unions. So the name is misleading. This patch renames it to
'identifiers', which specific the functions/types to be included in
documentation. We keep the old name as an alias of the new one before
all documentation are updated.
Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
fix the disjunction by replacing "of" with "or".
Signed-off-by: Sheriff Esseson <sheriffesseson@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
"If no *function* if specified" should instead be
"If no *function* is specified".
Reported-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Frank Rowand <frank.rowand@sony.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
(1) The command to generate man pages is truncated in the pdf version
of the document. Reformat the command into multiple lines to prevent
the truncation.
(2) Older versions of git do not support all variants of pathspec
syntax. Provide commands to generate man pages for various
alternate syntax.
Signed-off-by: Frank Rowand <frank.rowand@sony.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
In the Function documentation Section of kernel-doc.rst
there is a function_name() function as an example for
how to make a comment about a function.
But at the end of that example there is a reference to foobar
instead of function_name.
I think that should rather be function_name, because that
was the placeholder the whole example was using.
Signed-off-by: Joris Gutjahr <joris.gutjahr@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
When kernel-doc:: specified in .rst document without explicit directives,
it outputs both comment and DOC: sections. If a DOC: section was explicitly
included in the same document it will be duplicated. For example, the
output generated for Documentation/core-api/idr.rst [1] has "IDA
description" in the "IDA usage" section and in the middle of the API
reference.
This patch enables using "functions" directive without parameters to output
all the documentation excluding DOC: sections.
[1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.17/core-api/idr.html
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Currently there is no automated checking for kernel-doc comments except
running 'kernel-doc -v -none <filename>'. Mention the possibility to run
kernel-doc to verify formatting of the comments in the kernel-doc guide.
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
It helps to give some examples about how to use in-line
comments also when nested union/structs are present. So add it.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
We want to give some examples about how to do in-line comments
for nested structs. So, move it to be after nested structs/unions
chapter.
The section content was not changed on this patch.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Without ending with a ";", kernel-doc doesn't recognize it
as an struct, and it fails to parse the example.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
There's a missing */ at the end of Kernel docs example.
Even adding it, it will still produce 3 warnings:
example:33: warning: Function parameter or member 'bar' not described in 'nested_foobar'
example:33: warning: Function parameter or member 'bar.st1' not described in 'nested_foobar'
example:33: warning: Function parameter or member 'bar.st2' not described in 'nested_foobar'
So, make the example more complete and add the missing end
of comment there.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
I found the layout confusing with multiple introductions to what
kernel-doc is and how to use it.
I made the following changes:
- Moved the 'Including kernel-doc comments' section to the end of
the document -- we should explain what it *is* before we explain
how to integrate it.
- Moved the 'Recommendations' subsection to the top. We want people
to know what to document before telling them how to do it.
- Rewrite the 'Writing kernel-doc comments' section, integrating
the 'Recommendations' subsection and a paragraph from 'How to format
kernel-doc comments'.
- Remove the paragraph about the kernel-doc script; we're supposed to
be teaching people how to use punctuation to write pretty documentation,
not documenting the build tooling.
- Split the 'Parameters and member arguments' section into 'Function
parameters' and 'Members'. Structure members are not commonly
referred to as arguments.
- Integrate the 'private:' and 'public:' tag descriptions into the
'Members' section.
- Move the 'In-line member documentation comments' subsection up to be
with the 'Members' section.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Line up the second line in the way that the example purports to be
showing.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Instead of asking the user to copy and paste a small perl script from
the documentation, just distribute the perl script in the scripts
directory.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
The author clearly meant to use the word 'which' here. Also replace
some tabs with spaces which fixes the syntax highlighting in my editor.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
This section is mentioned in scripts/kernel-doc, so we should mention it
in doc-guide/kernel-doc.rst. There are close to 500 comments using the
Context section already, and almost 300 using a Locking section which
fulfills much the same purpose (and should probably be converted for
consistency).
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
There are several places within the Kernel tree with nested
structs/unions, like this one:
struct ingenic_cgu_clk_info {
const char *name;
enum {
CGU_CLK_NONE = 0,
CGU_CLK_EXT = BIT(0),
CGU_CLK_PLL = BIT(1),
CGU_CLK_GATE = BIT(2),
CGU_CLK_MUX = BIT(3),
CGU_CLK_MUX_GLITCHFREE = BIT(4),
CGU_CLK_DIV = BIT(5),
CGU_CLK_FIXDIV = BIT(6),
CGU_CLK_CUSTOM = BIT(7),
} type;
int parents[4];
union {
struct ingenic_cgu_pll_info pll;
struct {
struct ingenic_cgu_gate_info gate;
struct ingenic_cgu_mux_info mux;
struct ingenic_cgu_div_info div;
struct ingenic_cgu_fixdiv_info fixdiv;
};
struct ingenic_cgu_custom_info custom;
};
};
Currently, such struct is documented as:
**Definition**
::
struct ingenic_cgu_clk_info {
const char * name;
};
**Members**
``name``
name of the clock
With is obvioulsy wrong. It also generates an error:
drivers/clk/ingenic/cgu.h:169: warning: No description found for parameter 'enum'
However, there's nothing wrong with this kernel-doc markup: everything
is documented there.
It makes sense to document all fields there. So, add a
way for the core to parse those structs.
With this patch, all documented fields will properly generate
documentation.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt has a chapter about man pages
production. While we don't have a working "make manpages"
target, add it.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Add documentation about typedefs for function prototypes and
move it to happen earlier.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
There is a mess on this chapter: it suggests that even
enums and unions should be documented with "struct". That's
not the way it should be ;-)
Fix it and move it to happen earlier.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Move its contents to happen earlier and improve the description
of return values, adding a subsection to it. Most of the contents
there came from kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
The private members section can now be moved to be together
with the arguments section. Move it there and add an example
about the usage of public:
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Add a new section to describe kernel-doc arguments,
adding examples about how identation should happen, as failing
to do that causes Sphinx to do the wrong thing.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
changeset b97f193abf ("scripts/kernel-doc: fix parser
for apostrophes") added support for ``literal`` inside
kernel-doc, in order to allow using the "%" symbol inside
a literal block, as this is used at printk() description.
Document it.
Fixes: b97f193abf ("scripts/kernel-doc: fix parser for apostrophes")
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Having the kernel-documentation at the topmost level doesn't
allow generating a separate PDF file for it. Also, makes harder
to add extra contents. So, place it on a sub-dir.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
