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diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt b/Documentation/kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt index d73fbd2b2b45..026ec7d57384 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt @@ -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. |