[U-Boot] KernelDoc

Marek Vasut marex at denx.de
Mon Oct 1 12:37:26 CEST 2012


Dear Wolfgang Denk,

> Dear Marek Vasut,
> 
> In message <201210011107.45164.marex at denx.de> you wrote:
> > Agreed, not the whole file. But, can you check the rules I tried to
> > outline?
> 
> Is there a summary somewhere?  Something we could add to the wiki?

I sent this on friday:

So I've been hacking on it for a bit, see the first stab at [1]. As for the 
ruleset, I propose this addition for the Wiki [2]:

-->8--

U-Boot code documentation
=========================

U-Boot adopted the kernel-doc annotation style, this is the only exception from 
multi-line comment rule of Coding Style. While not mandatory, adding 
documentation is strongly advised. The Linux kernel kernel-doc document [3] 
appliest with no changes.

--8<--

[1] http://twilight.ponies.cz/kerneldoc/
[2] http://www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot/CodingStyle
[3] 
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=blob;f=Documentation/kernel-
doc-nano-HOWTO.txt

> Best regards,
> 
> Wolfgang Denk

Best regards,
Marek Vasut


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