linux-kernel - [PATCH v4 4/4] scripts/kernel-doc: some fixes to kernel-doc comments

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Message-ID: <a6248f9347f5d69063d7cdd78f27996271c2e5b9.1768395332.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2026 13:57:25 +0100
From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@...nel.org>
To: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
	Linux Doc Mailing List <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@...nel.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@...el.com>,
	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>,
	Shuah Khan <skhan@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: [PATCH v4 4/4] scripts/kernel-doc: some fixes to kernel-doc comments

There are some typos and English errors in the comments of kernel‑doc.py.

Locate them with the help of an LLM (gpt‑oss 14B), executed locally
with this prompt:

        review English grammar and syntax at the comments on the code below:
        <cat scripts/kernel-doc.py>

While LLM worked fine for the task of doing an English grammar review
for strings, being able to distinguish them from the actual code, it
was not is perfect: some things required manual work to fix.

-

While here, replace:

    "/**" with: ``/**``

As, if we ever rename this script to kernel_doc.py and add it to
Sphinx ext autodoc, we want to avoid this warning:

    scripts/kernel_doc.py:docstring of kernel_doc:10: WARNING: Inline strong start-string without end-string. [docutils]

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@...nel.org>
---
 scripts/kernel-doc.py | 24 ++++++++++++------------
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/kernel-doc.py b/scripts/kernel-doc.py
index 1d6036265c0d..7f84c58f7dc4 100755
--- a/scripts/kernel-doc.py
+++ b/scripts/kernel-doc.py
@@ -9,9 +9,9 @@
 #       The rationale is that it shall fail gracefully during Kernel
 #       compilation with older Kernel versions. Due to that:
 #       - encoding line is needed here;
-#       - no f-strings can be used on this file.
-#       - the libraries that require newer versions can only be included
-#         after Python version is checked.
+#       - f-strings cannot be used in this file.
+#       - libraries that require newer versions can only be included
+#         after the Python version has been checked.
 #
 # Converted from the kernel-doc script originally written in Perl
 # under GPLv2, copyrighted since 1998 by the following authors:
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ Read C language source or header FILEs, extract embedded
 documentation comments, and print formatted documentation
 to standard output.
 
-The documentation comments are identified by the "/**"
+The documentation comments are identified by the ``/**``
 opening comment mark.
 
 See Documentation/doc-guide/kernel-doc.rst for the
@@ -134,13 +134,13 @@ May be used multiple times.
 """
 
 EXPORT_DESC = """
-Only output documentation for the symbols that have been
+Only output documentation for symbols that have been
 exported using EXPORT_SYMBOL() and related macros in any input
 FILE or -export-file FILE.
 """
 
 INTERNAL_DESC = """
-Only output documentation for the symbols that have NOT been
+Only output documentation for symbols that have NOT been
 exported using EXPORT_SYMBOL() and related macros in any input
 FILE or -export-file FILE.
 """
@@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ Header and C source files to be parsed.
 """
 
 WARN_CONTENTS_BEFORE_SECTIONS_DESC = """
-Warns if there are contents before sections (deprecated).
+Warn if there are contents before sections (deprecated).
 
 This option is kept just for backward-compatibility, but it does nothing,
 neither here nor at the original Perl script.
@@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ neither here nor at the original Perl script.
 
 
 class MsgFormatter(logging.Formatter):
-    """Helper class to format warnings on a similar way to kernel-doc.pl"""
+    """Helper class to format warnings in a similar way to kernel-doc.pl."""
 
     def format(self, record):
         record.levelname = record.levelname.capitalize()
@@ -272,7 +272,7 @@ def main():
                         help=NOSYMBOL_DESC)
 
     parser.add_argument("-D", "-no-doc-sections", "--no-doc-sections",
-                        action='store_true', help="Don't outputt DOC sections")
+                        action='store_true', help="Don't output DOC sections")
 
     parser.add_argument("files", metavar="FILE",
                         nargs="+", help=FILES_DESC)
@@ -301,12 +301,12 @@ def main():
     python_ver = sys.version_info[:2]
     if python_ver < (3,6):
         #
-        # Depending on Kernel configuration, kernel-doc --none is called at
+        # Depending on the Kernel configuration, kernel-doc --none is called at
         # build time. As we don't want to break compilation due to the
         # usage of an old Python version, return 0 here.
         #
         if args.none:
-            logger.error("Python 3.6 or later is required by kernel-doc. skipping checks")
+            logger.error("Python 3.6 or later is required by kernel-doc. Skipping checks")
             sys.exit(0)
 
         sys.exit("Python 3.6 or later is required by kernel-doc. Aborting.")
@@ -315,7 +315,7 @@ def main():
         logger.warning("Python 3.7 or later is required for correct results")
 
     #
-    # Import kernel-doc libraries only after checking Python version
+    # Import kernel-doc libraries only after checking the Python version
     #
     from kdoc.kdoc_files import KernelFiles             # pylint: disable=C0415
     from kdoc.kdoc_output import RestFormat, ManFormat  # pylint: disable=C0415
-- 
2.52.0