On Sun, 13 Oct 2019, Changbin Du changbin.du@gmail.com wrote:
The 'functions' directive is not only for functions, but also works for structs/unions. So the name is misleading. This patch renames it to 'specific', so now we have export/internal/specific directives to limit the functions/types to be included in documentation. Meanwhile we improved the warning message.
Agreed on "functions" being less than perfect. It directly exposes the idiosyncrasies of scripts/kernel-doc. I'm not sure "specific" is any better, though.
Perhaps "symbols" would be more self-explanatory. Or, actually make "functions" only work on functions, and add a separate keyword for other stuff. *shrug*
Seems like the patch is way too big. I'd probably add "symbols" (or whatever) as a synonym for "functions" for starters, and convert documents piecemeal, and finally drop the old one.
The scripts/kernel-doc change should be a patch of its own.
BR, Jani.