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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt | 4 | ||||
| -rwxr-xr-x | scripts/kernel-doc | 21 |
2 files changed, 19 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt b/Documentation/kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt index 4d04572b6549..348b9e5e28fc 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt @@ -66,7 +66,9 @@ Example kernel-doc function comment: * The longer description can have multiple paragraphs. */ -The first line, with the short description, must be on a single line. +The short description following the subject can span multiple lines +and ends with an @argument description, an empty line or the end of +the comment block. The @argument descriptions must begin on the very next line following this opening short function description line, with no intervening diff --git a/scripts/kernel-doc b/scripts/kernel-doc index b52d340d759d..ea9f8a58678f 100755 --- a/scripts/kernel-doc +++ b/scripts/kernel-doc @@ -1995,6 +1995,7 @@ sub process_file($) { my $identifier; my $func; my $descr; + my $in_purpose = 0; my $initial_section_counter = $section_counter; if (defined($ENV{'SRCTREE'})) { @@ -2044,6 +2045,7 @@ sub process_file($) { $descr =~ s/\s*$//; $descr =~ s/\s+/ /; $declaration_purpose = xml_escape($descr); + $in_purpose = 1; } else { $declaration_purpose = ""; } @@ -2090,6 +2092,7 @@ sub process_file($) { } $in_doc_sect = 1; + $in_purpose = 0; $contents = $newcontents; if ($contents ne "") { while ((substr($contents, 0, 1) eq " ") || @@ -2119,11 +2122,19 @@ sub process_file($) { } elsif (/$doc_content/) { # miguel-style comment kludge, look for blank lines after # @parameter line to signify start of description - if ($1 eq "" && - ($section =~ m/^@/ || $section eq $section_context)) { - dump_section($file, $section, xml_escape($contents)); - $section = $section_default; - $contents = ""; + if ($1 eq "") { + if ($section =~ m/^@/ || $section eq $section_context) { + dump_section($file, $section, xml_escape($contents)); + $section = $section_default; + $contents = ""; + } else { + $contents .= "\n"; + } + $in_purpose = 0; + } elsif ($in_purpose == 1) { + # Continued declaration purpose + chomp($declaration_purpose); + $declaration_purpose .= " " . xml_escape($1); } else { $contents .= $1 . "\n"; } |