Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [TECH TOPIC] Documentation

On Thu, 2020-07-09 at 15:11 +0300, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 09, 2020 at 04:42:58AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Thu, 2020-07-09 at 12:21 +0200, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> > > Em Thu, 18 Jun 2020 07:40:22 -0700
> > > Joe Perches <[email protected]> escreveu:
> > > 
> > > > On Thu, 2020-06-18 at 12:04 +0300, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> > > > > if a patch breaks the sync between the code and the
> > > > > kerneldoc can it be detected by checkpatch.pl?  
> > > > 
> > > > No, it can not.  Not directly.
> > > 
> > > Well, perhaps checkpatch.pl could run:
> > > 
> > > 	./scripts/kernel-doc -none
> > > 
> > > if it finds "/**" on a patch, showing the warnings produced by it, if any.
> > 
> > checkpatch runs on patches.
> > Use the tools that are designed for this instead.
> 
> The problem is that people usually do run checkpatch and do not run
> kernel-doc. That's where the idea to somehow put documentation checks
> into checkpatch came from.

I much prefer this patch:
https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/1260408/


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