From 35c0f975ef4a96cb488bcb5fca6e852fc347bc49 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2026 13:05:03 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] docs: kdoc: improve description of MsgFormatter The description there is quite vague. Make it clearer. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet Message-ID: <94269990e2d665bec08a1b6f4d28d84939cb9d83.1768823489.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> --- tools/docs/kernel-doc | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/tools/docs/kernel-doc b/tools/docs/kernel-doc index 902397804e80..aed09f9a54dd 100755 --- a/tools/docs/kernel-doc +++ b/tools/docs/kernel-doc @@ -182,7 +182,10 @@ return 0 if there are issues at kernel-doc markups; """ class MsgFormatter(logging.Formatter): - """Helper class to format warnings in a similar way to kernel-doc.pl.""" + """ + Helper class to capitalize errors and warnings, the same way + the venerable (now retired) kernel-doc.pl used to do. + """ def format(self, record): record.levelname = record.levelname.capitalize()