linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH v4 01/13] ktask: add documentation

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Message-ID: <20181108102638.3415ae0b@lwn.net>
Date:   Thu, 8 Nov 2018 10:26:38 -0700
From:   Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
To:     Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@...cle.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v4 01/13] ktask: add documentation

On Mon,  5 Nov 2018 11:55:46 -0500
Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@...cle.com> wrote:

> Motivates and explains the ktask API for kernel clients.

A couple of quick thoughts:

- Agree with Peter on the use of "task"; something like "job" would be far
  less likely to create confusion.  Maybe you could even call it a "batch
  job" to give us old-timers warm fuzzies...:)

- You have kerneldoc comments for the API functions, but you don't pull
  those into the documentation itself.  Adding some kernel-doc directives
  could help to fill things out nicely with little effort.

Thanks,

jon