We've had this already for anything new. With my drm_prime.c cleanup I also think documentations for everything already existing is complete, and we can bake this in as a requirements subsystem wide.
Acked-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nik...@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vet...@intel.com> Cc: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinch...@ideasonboard.com> Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nik...@linux.intel.com> Cc: David Airlie <airl...@linux.ie> Cc: Daniel Vetter <dan...@ffwll.ch> Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankho...@linux.intel.com> Cc: Maxime Ripard <maxime.rip...@bootlin.com> Cc: Sean Paul <s...@poorly.run> --- resending stand-alone for more visibility and a-b gathering. -Daniel --- Documentation/gpu/introduction.rst | 13 +++++++++++++ Documentation/gpu/todo.rst | 13 ------------- 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/gpu/introduction.rst b/Documentation/gpu/introduction.rst index fccbe375244d..a94ad6ad1f54 100644 --- a/Documentation/gpu/introduction.rst +++ b/Documentation/gpu/introduction.rst @@ -51,6 +51,19 @@ and "FIXME" where the interface could be cleaned up. Also read the :ref:`guidelines for the kernel documentation at large <doc_guide>`. +Documentation Requirements for kAPI +----------------------------------- + +All kernel APIs exported to other modules must be documented, including their +datastructures and at least a short introductory section explaining the overall +concepts. Documentation should be put into the code itself as kerneldoc comments +as much as reasonable. Do not blindly document everything, but document only +what's relevant for driver authors: Internal functions of drm.ko and definitely +static functions should not have formal kerneldoc comments. Use normal C +comments if you feel like a comment is warranted. Similar for data structures, +annotate anything entirely private with ``/* private: */`` comments as per the +documentation guide. + Getting Started =============== diff --git a/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst b/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst index e717f280f9ae..db88969a56ee 100644 --- a/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst +++ b/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst @@ -301,19 +301,6 @@ In the end no .c file should need to include ``drmP.h`` anymore. Contact: Daniel Vetter -Add missing kerneldoc for exported functions --------------------------------------------- - -The DRM reference documentation is still lacking kerneldoc in a few areas. The -task would be to clean up interfaces like moving functions around between -files to better group them and improving the interfaces like dropping return -values for functions that never fail. Then write kerneldoc for all exported -functions and an overview section and integrate it all into the drm book. - -See https://dri.freedesktop.org/docs/drm/ for what's there already. - -Contact: Daniel Vetter - Make panic handling work ------------------------ -- 2.20.1 _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
