Re: [PATCH 3/5] media: vimc: stream: format comments as kernel-doc

["André Almeida" <andrealmeid@collabora.com>]

On 6/23/19 1:40 PM, André Almeida wrote:
> Format the current existing comments as kernel-doc comments, to be
> reused at kernel documention. Add opening marks (/**) and return values.
>
> Signed-off-by: André Almeida <andrealmeid@collabora.com>
> ---
>  drivers/media/platform/vimc/vimc-streamer.c | 38 +++++++++++++--------
>  1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/media/platform/vimc/vimc-streamer.c b/drivers/media/platform/vimc/vimc-streamer.c
> index 3b3f36357a0e..9970650b0f26 100644
> --- a/drivers/media/platform/vimc/vimc-streamer.c
> +++ b/drivers/media/platform/vimc/vimc-streamer.c
> @@ -20,6 +20,8 @@
>   *
>   * Helper function that returns the media entity containing the source pad
>   * linked with the first sink pad from the given media entity pad list.
> + *
> + * Return: The source pad or NULL, if it wasn't found.
>   */
>  static struct media_entity *vimc_get_source_entity(struct media_entity *ent)
>  {
> @@ -35,7 +37,7 @@ static struct media_entity *vimc_get_source_entity(struct media_entity *ent)
>  	return NULL;
>  }
>  
> -/*
> +/**
>   * vimc_streamer_pipeline_terminate - Disable stream in all ved in stream
>   *
>   * @stream: the pointer to the stream structure with the pipeline to be
> @@ -63,15 +65,18 @@ static void vimc_streamer_pipeline_terminate(struct vimc_stream *stream)
>  	}
>  }
>  
> -/*
> - * vimc_streamer_pipeline_init - initializes the stream structure
> +/**
> + * vimc_streamer_pipeline_init - Initializes the stream structure
>   *
>   * @stream: the pointer to the stream structure to be initialized
>   * @ved:    the pointer to the vimc entity initializing the stream
>   *
>   * Initializes the stream structure. Walks through the entity graph to
>   * construct the pipeline used later on the streamer thread.
> - * Calls s_stream to enable stream in all entities of the pipeline.
> + * Calls ``vimc_streamer_s_stream`` to enable stream in all entities of
``vimc_streamer_s_stream`` could also been written as
:c:func:`vimc_streamer_s_stream`. In this latest setup, the
Documentation output would display a nice hyperlink to the documentation
of  vimc_streamer_s_stream function. Is this a good improvement or it
will be too verbose?
> + * the pipeline.
> + *
> + * Return: 0 if success, error code otherwise.
>   */
>  static int vimc_streamer_pipeline_init(struct vimc_stream *stream,
>  				       struct vimc_ent_device *ved)
> @@ -122,13 +127,17 @@ static int vimc_streamer_pipeline_init(struct vimc_stream *stream,
>  	return -EINVAL;
>  }
>  
> -/*
> - * vimc_streamer_thread - process frames through the pipeline
> +/**
> + * vimc_streamer_thread - Process frames through the pipeline
>   *
>   * @data:	vimc_stream struct of the current stream
>   *
>   * From the source to the sink, gets a frame from each subdevice and send to
>   * the next one of the pipeline at a fixed framerate.
> + *
> + * Return:
> + * Always zero (created as ``int`` instead of ``void`` to comply with
> + * kthread API).
>   */
>  static int vimc_streamer_thread(void *data)
>  {
> @@ -157,19 +166,20 @@ static int vimc_streamer_thread(void *data)
>  	return 0;
>  }
>  
> -/*
> - * vimc_streamer_s_stream - start/stop the streaming on the media pipeline
> +/**
> + * vimc_streamer_s_stream - Start/stop the streaming on the media pipeline
>   *
>   * @stream:	the pointer to the stream structure of the current stream
>   * @ved:	pointer to the vimc entity of the entity of the stream
>   * @enable:	flag to determine if stream should start/stop
>   *
> - * When starting, check if there is no stream->kthread allocated. This should
> - * indicate that a stream is already running. Then, it initializes
> - * the pipeline, creates and runs a kthread to consume buffers through the
> - * pipeline.
> - * When stopping, analogously check if there is a stream running, stop
> - * the thread and terminates the pipeline.
> + * When starting, check if there is no ``stream->kthread`` allocated. This
> + * should indicate that a stream is already running. Then, it initializes the
> + * pipeline, creates and runs a kthread to consume buffers through the pipeline.
> + * When stopping, analogously check if there is a stream running, stop the
> + * thread and terminates the pipeline.
> + *
> + * Return: 0 if success, error code otherwise.
>   */
>  int vimc_streamer_s_stream(struct vimc_stream *stream,
>  			   struct vimc_ent_device *ved,