From d2b34e20c1f431604e0dde910c3ff271c84ed706 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Randy Dunlap Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2010 14:43:09 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] documentation: update kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO information Remove comments about function short descriptions not allowed to be on multiple lines (that was fixed/changed recently). Add comments that function "section header:" names need to be unique per function/struct/union/typedef/enum. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Documentation/kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt | 12 +++++++----- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt b/Documentation/kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt index 348b9e5e28fc..27a52b35d55b 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt @@ -214,11 +214,13 @@ The format of the block comment is like this: * (section header: (section description)? )* (*)?*/ -The short function description ***cannot be multiline***, but the other -descriptions can be (and they can contain blank lines). If you continue -that initial short description onto a second line, that second line will -appear further down at the beginning of the description section, which is -almost certainly not what you had in mind. +All "description" text can span multiple lines, although the +function_name & its short description are traditionally on a single line. +Description text may also contain blank lines (i.e., lines that contain +only a "*"). + +"section header:" names must be unique per function (or struct, +union, typedef, enum). Avoid putting a spurious blank line after the function name, or else the description will be repeated!