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Message-Id: <1190309156.26982.144.camel@localhost>
Date:	Thu, 20 Sep 2007 10:25:56 -0700
From:	Dave Hansen <haveblue@...ibm.com>
To:	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>
Cc:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>, akpm@...l.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] docuement filesystem helpers for custom 'struct file's

On Wed, 2007-09-19 at 15:07 -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> 
> They aren't quite in kernel-doc format.  Holler if you need help
> with that, or see examples, or
> Documentation/kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt.

Should we do comments for every single function argument, or is it OK to
leave them out for the obvious ones?

init_file() gets really boring:

> + * init_file - initialize a 'struct file'
> + * @file: the already allocated 'struct file' to initialized
> + * @mnt: the vfsmount on which the file resides
> + * @dentry: the dentry for the file
> + * @mode: the file's mode
> + * @fop: the file's operations

Seems like a waste of space to me, but I'd be happy to do them if that's
the convention.

-- Dave

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