[PATCH v5 4/4] scripts/kernel-doc: some fixes to kernel-doc comments
From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Date: 2026-01-17 09:29:32
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Linus Torvalds
There are some typos and English errors in the comments of kernel‑doc.py.
Locate them with the help of an LLM (gpt‑oss 14B), executed locally
with this prompt:
review English grammar and syntax at the comments on the code below:
<cat scripts/kernel-doc.py>
While LLM worked fine for the task of doing an English grammar review
for strings, being able to distinguish them from the actual code, it
was not is perfect: some things required manual work to fix.
-
While here, replace:
"/**" with: ``/**``
As, if we ever rename this script to kernel_doc.py and add it to
Sphinx ext autodoc, we want to avoid this warning:
scripts/kernel_doc.py:docstring of kernel_doc:10: WARNING: Inline strong start-string without end-string. [docutils]
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
---
scripts/kernel-doc.py | 29 +++++++++++++----------------
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
diff --git a/scripts/kernel-doc.py b/scripts/kernel-doc.py
index f1f3f56edeb5..4e3b9cfe3fd7 100755
--- a/scripts/kernel-doc.py
+++ b/scripts/kernel-doc.py@@ -9,9 +9,9 @@ # The rationale is that it shall fail gracefully during Kernel # compilation with older Kernel versions. Due to that: # - encoding line is needed here; -# - no f-strings can be used on this file. -# - the libraries that require newer versions can only be included -# after Python version is checked. +# - f-strings cannot be used in this file. +# - libraries that require newer versions can only be included +# after the Python version has been checked. # # Converted from the kernel-doc script originally written in Perl # under GPLv2, copyrighted since 1998 by the following authors:
@@ -88,16 +88,13 @@ # Yujie Liu <yujie.liu@intel.com> """ -kernel_doc -========== - -Print formatted kernel documentation to stdout +Print formatted kernel documentation to stdout. Read C language source or header FILEs, extract embedded documentation comments, and print formatted documentation to standard output. -The documentation comments are identified by the "/**" +The documentation comments are identified by the ``/**`` opening comment mark. See Documentation/doc-guide/kernel-doc.rst for the
@@ -134,13 +131,13 @@ May be used multiple times. """ EXPORT_DESC = """ -Only output documentation for the symbols that have been +Only output documentation for symbols that have been exported using EXPORT_SYMBOL() and related macros in any input FILE or -export-file FILE. """ INTERNAL_DESC = """ -Only output documentation for the symbols that have NOT been +Only output documentation for symbols that have NOT been exported using EXPORT_SYMBOL() and related macros in any input FILE or -export-file FILE. """
@@ -163,7 +160,7 @@ Header and C source files to be parsed. """ WARN_CONTENTS_BEFORE_SECTIONS_DESC = """ -Warns if there are contents before sections (deprecated). +Warn if there are contents before sections (deprecated). This option is kept just for backward-compatibility, but it does nothing, neither here nor at the original Perl script.
@@ -171,7 +168,7 @@ neither here nor at the original Perl script. class MsgFormatter(logging.Formatter): - """Helper class to format warnings on a similar way to kernel-doc.pl""" + """Helper class to format warnings in a similar way to kernel-doc.pl.""" def format(self, record): record.levelname = record.levelname.capitalize()
@@ -273,7 +270,7 @@ def main(): help=NOSYMBOL_DESC) parser.add_argument("-D", "-no-doc-sections", "--no-doc-sections", - action='store_true', help="Don't outputt DOC sections") + action='store_true', help="Don't output DOC sections") parser.add_argument("files", metavar="FILE", nargs="+", help=FILES_DESC)
@@ -302,12 +299,12 @@ def main(): python_ver = sys.version_info[:2] if python_ver < (3,6): # - # Depending on Kernel configuration, kernel-doc --none is called at + # Depending on the Kernel configuration, kernel-doc --none is called at # build time. As we don't want to break compilation due to the # usage of an old Python version, return 0 here. # if args.none: - logger.error("Python 3.6 or later is required by kernel-doc. skipping checks") + logger.error("Python 3.6 or later is required by kernel-doc. Skipping checks") sys.exit(0) sys.exit("Python 3.6 or later is required by kernel-doc. Aborting.")
@@ -316,7 +313,7 @@ def main(): logger.warning("Python 3.7 or later is required for correct results") # - # Import kernel-doc libraries only after checking Python version + # Import kernel-doc libraries only after checking the Python version # from kdoc.kdoc_files import KernelFiles # pylint: disable=C0415 from kdoc.kdoc_output import RestFormat, ManFormat # pylint: disable=C0415
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