linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 04/36] mutex, futex: adjust kernel-doc markups to generate ReST

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Date:   Sat, 13 May 2017 00:11:09 +0200
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:     Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...pensource.com>
Cc:     Darren Hart <dvhart@...radead.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Linux Doc Mailing List <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...radead.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/36] mutex, futex: adjust kernel-doc markups to
 generate ReST

On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 06:51:50PM -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> >  * Return:
> >  *  *  0 - ready to wait
> >  *  *  1 - acquired the lock
> >  *  * <0 - error
> > 
> > I'm fine with either though, just curious if this would be an improvement, or if
> > we have an established policy (which I didn't find in the docs on docs...).
> 
> I prefer myself to use "-". IMHO, a dash is visually less polluted
> than an asterisk, when reading text files, but I guess this is a
> matter of taste.

Not to mention it just reads very awkward in a comment. I don't much
care about it in any other context.

And I really _really_ hate to see that rest crap spread here. Can't we
just delete all that nonsense and go back to 80 column 7bit ASCII ?

It is an incentive not to use kerneldoc..