linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Restyle comments to better align with kernel-doc

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Date:   Tue, 3 Aug 2021 16:41:55 +0100
From:   Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
To:     Kari Argillander <kari.argillander@...il.com>
Cc:     Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>,
        Konstantin Komarov <almaz.alexandrovich@...agon-software.com>,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, viro@...iv.linux.org.uk,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, pali@...nel.org, dsterba@...e.cz,
        aaptel@...e.com, rdunlap@...radead.org, joe@...ches.com,
        mark@...mstone.com, nborisov@...e.com,
        linux-ntfs-dev@...ts.sourceforge.net, anton@...era.com, hch@....de,
        ebiggers@...nel.org, andy.lavr@...il.com, oleksandr@...alenko.name
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Restyle comments to better align with kernel-doc

On Tue, Aug 03, 2021 at 06:26:19PM +0300, Kari Argillander wrote:
> I would not even try to make these kind of changes if ntfs3 patch series
> was already merged to kernel. But probably I will try to bring kernel doc
> style funtion comments in future when ntfs3 gets merged.

There's very little value to adding kernel-doc comments to individual
filesystems.  Filesystems don't usually provide services to the rest of
the kernel.  It's a much better use of your time to write kernel-doc
comments for functions and structures in the VFS and MM that are used
by many filesystems and device drivers.