why is "const u32 (*tab)[256]" not kerneldoc-able?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Tue, 3 Feb 2015, Bjørn Mork wrote:

> "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> writes:
>
> >   actually, i just found where this is a known issue:
> >
> > http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-doc/msg09364.html
>
> Probably because it's a rare construct.
>
> But looking closer at this, trying to understand why the simple test
> using
>
>   scripts/kernel-doc lib/crc32.c |man -l -
>
> seemed to sort of work, I found that your main problem isn't really the
> lack of kernel-doc support for array pointer parameters.  It's a simple
> mismatch between the documented and the exported functions.
>
> scripts/docproc will only generate docs for exported symbols.
> lib/crc32.c has no documented *and* exported functions, and thats why
> the output is empty.  The array pointer is a red herring.

  ah, good point, i had totally missed that. i'll move this discussion
to the linux-doc list and resolve it there.

rday

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