docs: kdoc: some fixes to kernel-doc comments

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>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <ec08727f22ad35e6c58519c1f425f216f14b701c.1768823489.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
master
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 2026-01-19 13:04:59 +01:00 committed by Jonathan Corbet
parent bd28e99720
commit 6cc45ee5df
1 changed files with 13 additions and 16 deletions

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@ -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