linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] scripts: kernel_doc: fixup reporting of function identifiers

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Message-ID: <20180216075642.2e56eb51@lwn.net>
Date:   Fri, 16 Feb 2018 07:56:42 -0700
From:   Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
To:     Mike Rapoport <rppt@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:     linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scripts: kernel_doc: fixup reporting of function
 identifiers

On Tue, 13 Feb 2018 13:31:46 +0200
Mike Rapoport <rppt@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:

> When function description includes brackets after the function name as
> suggested by Documentation/doc-guide/kernel-doc, the kernel-doc script
> omits the function name from "Scanning doc for" report.
> Extending match for identifier name with optional brackets fixes this
> issue.

So let me channel akpm here and ask: what are the user-visible effects of
this problem?  I ask because applying it doesn't make any difference in
the "make htmldocs" output here.  So I don't understand why you're
wanting to make this change.

Thanks,

jon