linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] scripts: kernel-doc: avoid warnings due to initial commented lines in file

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Message-ID: <99a21e10-266e-b997-7048-c29a570afe0b@gmail.com>
Date:   Sat, 20 Mar 2021 12:23:25 +0530
From:   Aditya <yashsri421@...il.com>
To:     Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@...il.com>
Cc:     Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@...marit.de>,
        "open list:DOCUMENTATION" <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-kernel-mentees@...ts.linuxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] scripts: kernel-doc: avoid warnings due to initial
 commented lines in file

On 18/3/21 11:48 pm, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@...il.com> writes:
> 
>> Yeah, and as this line-counting is really just a poor man's
>> heuristics, we might just be better to really turn this heuristics
>> into a dedicated cleanup warning script, then we can check for more
>> indicators, such as "does it contain the word Copyright" somewhere in
>> the kernel-doc comment, which tells us even more that this is not a
>> kernel-doc as we would expect it.
> 
> I really don't think we need that kind of heuristic.  The format of
> kerneldoc comments is fairly rigid; it shouldn't be too hard to pick out
> the /** comments that don't fit that format, right?  Am I missing
> something there?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> jon
> 

Thanks for the inputs Lukas and Jonathan. I shall try to come up with
something.

Thanks
Aditya