Re: [PATCH 0/6] kernel-doc: add DOC: sections support

[Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>]

On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 10:36:11AM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 12:29:32 -0500 Matt Mackall wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 03:08:48PM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> > > 
> > > This patch series from Johannes Berg adds support for DOC: sections
> > > that are embedded in source files.
> > 
> > What do these look like?
> 
> There are currently 2 files in the kernel tree that contain DOC:
> sections.  These are not used in the docbooks, but you can see what
> they look like here:
> 
> ./drivers/net/3c501.c: * DOC: 3c501 Card Notes
> ./drivers/net/3c501.c: * DOC: Problems
> ./drivers/net/3c527.c: * DOC: Traps for the unwary
> ./drivers/net/3c527.c: * DOC: Theory Of Operation
> ./drivers/net/3c527.c: * DOC: Notes

Aside from those being about the least interesting drivers in the
tree, that's pretty neat.

The docbook infrastructure probably needs to figure out a way to pick
up this stuff automatically if it's not otherwise tied in.

With Python, I can do pydoc foo.py or pydoc foo/ and immediately get
browsable extracted docs in $PAGER for the associated file or
directory. Would be nice to get a little closer to that here.

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