From: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
To: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@darmarit.de>,
"open list:DOCUMENTATION" <linux-doc@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-kernel-mentees@lists.linuxfoundation.org,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Aditya <yashsri421@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] scripts: kernel-doc: avoid warnings due to initial commented lines in file
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2021 18:52:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKXUXMxWOvM5HRwmAAWEsqQc2k6_ReqRw0uD=VANLO5D7OpFtg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878s6kto3g.fsf@meer.lwn.net>
On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 5:37 PM Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> wrote:
>
> Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > I wonder if we could extend kernel-doc (not your preferred option as
> > it seems) for a new dedicated warning message or maintain a separate
> > kernel-doc sanity checking script to emit a dedicated warning based on
> > some heuristics that suggests when a "header comment" is probably
> > unintentionally declared as a "kernel-doc comment" when it really
> > should not be.
> >
> > Jonathan, would you then prefer to have a separate kernel-doc sanity
> > checking script that then allows us to maintain checking for patterns
> > we already cleaned up?
>
> Having a warning in kernel-doc for "This comment starts with /** but
> isn't a kerneldoc comment" could be useful, I guess. That is the real
> problem, not the fact that it appears at the top of the file. I'm all
> for tools that help us to clean things up, but let's not add
> line-counting hacks to try to paper it over.
>
Yeah, and as this line-counting is really just a poor man's
heuristics, we might just be better to really turn this heuristics
into a dedicated cleanup warning script, then we can check for more
indicators, such as "does it contain the word Copyright" somewhere in
the kernel-doc comment, which tells us even more that this is not a
kernel-doc as we would expect it.
Aditya, would you like to try to turn this check into a separate script instead?
Lukas
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Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-09 12:53 [RFC] scripts: kernel-doc: avoid warnings due to initial commented lines in file Aditya Srivastava
2021-03-09 13:30 ` Markus Heiser
2021-03-09 21:24 ` Aditya
2021-03-10 6:19 ` Lukas Bulwahn
2021-03-11 21:03 ` Aditya
2021-03-12 7:00 ` Lukas Bulwahn
2021-03-15 19:25 ` Jonathan Corbet
2021-03-18 10:55 ` Lukas Bulwahn
2021-03-18 16:37 ` Jonathan Corbet
2021-03-18 17:52 ` Lukas Bulwahn [this message]
2021-03-18 18:18 ` Jonathan Corbet
2021-03-20 6:53 ` Aditya
2021-03-20 12:45 ` Aditya Srivastava
2021-03-20 13:21 ` Lukas Bulwahn
2021-03-20 13:33 ` Aditya Srivastava
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