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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-02-13 12:05:57 (GMT)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-02-13 12:05:57 (GMT)
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@@ -43,7 +43,8 @@ Only comments so marked will be considered by the kernel-doc scripts,
and any comment so marked must be in kernel-doc format. Do not use
"/**" to be begin a comment block unless the comment block contains
kernel-doc formatted comments. The closing comment marker for
-kernel-doc comments can be either "*/" or "**/".
+kernel-doc comments can be either "*/" or "**/", but "*/" is
+preferred in the Linux kernel tree.
Kernel-doc comments should be placed just before the function
or data structure being described.
@@ -63,7 +64,7 @@ Example kernel-doc function comment:
* comment lines.
*
* The longer description can have multiple paragraphs.
- **/
+ */
The first line, with the short description, must be on a single line.
@@ -85,7 +86,7 @@ Example kernel-doc data structure comment.
* perhaps with more lines and words.
*
* Longer description of this structure.
- **/
+ */
The kernel-doc function comments describe each parameter to the
function, in order, with the @name lines.