From: Daniel Vetter Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2016 10:19:43 +0000 (+0100) Subject: doc: Document the new inline struct member kernel-doc style X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=38f985e3c9bb33d5422103807eb0a54f4ad39a0d;p=linux-beck.git doc: Document the new inline struct member kernel-doc style We don't just need better doc toolchains, we also need better docs for our doc toolchain! v2: Make sure we don't have foo twice (Jani). Cc: Daniel Vetter Cc: Jani Nikula Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet --- diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-documentation.rst b/Documentation/kernel-documentation.rst index c66ab937c2ca..3fcf0ad6e5f0 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-documentation.rst +++ b/Documentation/kernel-documentation.rst @@ -484,7 +484,10 @@ span multiple lines. The continuation lines may contain indentation. In-line member documentation comments ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -The structure members may also be documented in-line within the definition:: +The structure members may also be documented in-line within the definition. +There are two styles, single-line comments where both the opening ``/**`` and +closing ``*/`` are on the same line, and multi-line comments where they are each +on a line of their own, like all other kernel-doc comments:: /** * struct foo - Brief description. @@ -502,6 +505,8 @@ The structure members may also be documented in-line within the definition:: * Here, the member description may contain several paragraphs. */ int baz; + /** @foobar: Single line description. */ + int foobar; } Private members