Re: [RFC/PATCH] Documentation of kernel messages

[Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>]

On Mon, 18 Jun 2007 15:11:57 +0200 Sam Ravnborg wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 11:42:15AM -0700, Gerrit Huizenga wrote:
> > 
> > Andrew mentioned a mechanism for adding a subsystem tag or other tag
> > which helps disambiguate the message, either in the message file or in
> > the end user documentation (e.g. the Message Pedia/mPedia that the Japanese
> > have already created with ~350 messages, and a total of ~700 targetted
> > by the end of the year).
> > 
> > That tag could be appended to the beginning of the printk, to the end of
> > the printk, or even in a formatted comment at the end of the printk that
> > the tool could extract.
> 
> The best way to maintain such a subsystem tag most be supported by
> kbuild. So say we have the subsystem "scsi" then we can set this subsystem
> tag in drivers/scsi/Makefile and let drivers/scsi/arm/Makefile inherit
> this vaule doing nothing.
> 
> Addign the subsystem tag to the printk could than be done using the
> C preprocessor and we are all fine.
> 
> If we go by the kernel-doc way to document kernel messages (the few that
> actually needs additional explanation) then we need to teach kernel-doc
> to collect the same subsystem tag but that should be doable.

Actually I would prefer that such a tool be a clone of
scripts/kernel-doc and use a (slightly?) modified tag instead of
the kernel-doc "/**" tag if this route is used at all.


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~Randy
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