From 6d232c80158ae5a6fb497e0462d52c57c4459439 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2016 22:02:57 -0300 Subject: [PATCH] docs-rst: kernel-doc: better output struct members Right now, for a struct, kernel-doc produces the following output: .. c:type:: struct v4l2_prio_state stores the priority states **Definition** :: struct v4l2_prio_state { atomic_t prios[4]; }; **Members** ``atomic_t prios[4]`` array with elements to store the array priorities Putting a member name in verbatim and adding a continuation line causes the LaTeX output to generate something like: item[atomic_t prios\[4\]] array with elements to store the array priorities Everything inside "item" is non-breakable, with may produce lines bigger than the column width. Also, for function members, like: int (* rx_read) (struct v4l2_subdev *sd, u8 *buf, size_t count,ssize_t *num); It puts the name of the member at the end, like: int (*) (struct v4l2_subdev *sd, u8 *buf, size_t count,ssize_t *num) read With is very confusing. The best is to highlight what really matters: the member name. is a secondary information. So, change kernel-doc, for it to produce the output on a different way: **Members** ``prios[4]`` array with elements to store the array priorities Also, as the type is not part of LaTeX "item[]", LaTeX will split it into multiple lines, if needed. So, both LaTeX/PDF and HTML outputs will look good. It should be noticed, however, that the way Sphinx LaTeX output handles things like: Foo bar is different than the HTML output. On HTML, it will produce something like: **Foo** bar While, on LaTeX, it puts both foo and bar at the same line, like: **Foo** bar Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet --- scripts/kernel-doc | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/scripts/kernel-doc b/scripts/kernel-doc index ba081c7636a2..d225e178aa1b 100755 --- a/scripts/kernel-doc +++ b/scripts/kernel-doc @@ -2000,7 +2000,7 @@ sub output_struct_rst(%) { ($args{'parameterdescs'}{$parameter_name} ne $undescribed) || next; $type = $args{'parametertypes'}{$parameter}; print_lineno($parameterdesc_start_lines{$parameter_name}); - print "``$type $parameter``\n"; + print "``" . $parameter . "``\n"; output_highlight_rst($args{'parameterdescs'}{$parameter_name}); print "\n"; } -- 2.39.5