linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RFC] script: add a script for checking doc problems with external functions

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Message-ID: <0b3f06aca033deb1fe3b1635ff3932e7b3f4127a.camel@perches.com>
Date:   Wed, 07 Oct 2020 01:32:31 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@...ux.intel.com>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@...nel.org>,
        Linux Doc Mailing List <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
Cc:     Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] script: add a script for checking doc problems with
 external functions

On Wed, 2020-10-07 at 11:23 +0300, Jani Nikula wrote:
> On Tue, 06 Oct 2020, Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@...nel.org> wrote:
> > While not all EXPORT_SYMBOL*() symbols should be documented,
> > it seems useful to have a tool which would help to check what
> > symbols aren't documented.
> > 
> > This is a first step on this direction. The tool has some
> > limitations. Yet, it could be useful for maintainers to check
> > about missing documents on their subsystems.
> 
> Seems like this should be part of checkpatch.pl somehow.

I don't see how.