Randy Dunlap wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Oct 2006 07:28:51 +0400 Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> > On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 07:44:29PM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> > >  /**
> > > - * strlen_user: - Get the size of a string in user space.
> > > + * strnlen_user: - Get the size of a string in user space.
> >
> > It's better to not spend time fixing mismatches, but to teach kernel-doc
> > extract function name from function itself.
> >
> > 	/**
> > 	 * Get the size of a string in user space.
> > 	 * @foo: bar
> > 	 */
> > 	 size_t strnlen_user()
>
> OK, maybe a good idea.  I'll add that to the wish list.
> However, we have seen examples of:
>
> /**
>  * doc for foo
>  */
> int foo(int arg)
> {
> }
>
> then someone inserts a new function bar() between the kernel-doc
> and foo().  How would we catch that (automated)?
> other than by our review process?

Warn if the function signature of the documented function does not match the 
function and throw away the manpage then.

Eike