Re: [PATCH 1/4] drivers/bus: Added Freescale Management Complex APIs

[Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@freescale.com>]

On Fri, 19 Sep 2014 13:25:06 -0500
Yoder Stuart-B08248 <stuart.yoder@freescale.com> wrote:

> > From: Yoder Stuart-B08248
> > Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2014 7:19 PM
> > 
> > +/**
> > > >>> + * @brief    Disconnects one endpoint to remove its network link
> > > >>> + *
> > > >>> + * @param[in]   mc_io        Pointer to opaque I/O object
> > > >>> + * @param[in]    dprc_handle    Handle to the DPRC object
> > > >>> + * @param[in]   endpoint    Endpoint configuration parameters.
> > > >>> + *
> > > >>> + * @returns    '0' on Success; Error code otherwise.
> > > >>> + * */
> > > >>> +int dprc_disconnect(struct fsl_mc_io *mc_io, uint16_t dprc_handle,
> > > >>> +            struct dprc_endpoint *endpoint);
> > > >>> +
> > > >>> +/*! @} */
> > > >>
> > > >> this entire file is riddled with non-kernel-doc comment markers:  see
> > > >> Documentation/kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt on how to write function and
> > > >> other types of comments in a kernel-doc compliant format.
> > > > This is because this file is using doxygen comments, as it was developed
> > > > by another team. Unless someone else has an objection, I will leave the doxygen comments alone and not
> > make
> > > any change here.
> > >
> > > Do you see any other source files in Linux using doxygen comments?
> > 
> > Yes.  Grep around a bit and you'll see examples of it.  I grep'ed for some
> > doxygen tags and found close to 200 source files with them.

grepping for the one in this patch above - "! @}" - returns nothing.

> > > Mixing different documentation styles can
> > > easily become a big mess, because you can't generate external documentation consistently for the whole
> > tree.
> > 
> > As German mentioned elsewhere, this file is an interface to a hardware block,
> > was written by another team targetting a wide variety of environments-- u-boot,
> > Linux, user space, other OSes etc.
> > 
> > We left the doxygen stuff there because while admitedly not used much, there
> > are other examples of it in the kernel and the documentation seems useful.
> > If it can't go into the kernel as is, we can just delete it.
> 
> ...to be clear, we could just delete the doyxen tags.  There is no scenario
> where I would envision anyone generating documentation from these files in
> the kernel.  The tags are there because of where we grabbed the source from.
> It certainly would benefit no one by conversion to kerneldoc.

except kerneldoc users :)

> However, just leaving the comments and doxygen tags alone as is would be nice.

they are incompatible with kerneldoc.

Kim