[PATCH][kerneldoc] Remove non-functional DocBook "!D" tag

Robert P. J. Day rpjday at crashcourse.ca
Tue Feb 3 06:06:45 EST 2015


Remove the description of the apparently long non-functional "!D"
kerneldoc directive, and the single place under DocBook that refers to
it, which is simply commented out, anyway. If someone someday wants to
make that directive functional, then a description of it can be added
back in.

Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca>

---

  the warning that "!D" functionality is "not perfect" goes back to
2008, so it's fairly clear that no one is going to miss it.

diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/networking.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/networking.tmpl
index 29df250..1c9c07a 100644
--- a/Documentation/DocBook/networking.tmpl
+++ b/Documentation/DocBook/networking.tmpl
@@ -61,9 +61,6 @@
 !Enet/core/gen_estimator.c
      </sect1>
      <sect1><title>SUN RPC subsystem</title>
-<!-- The !D functionality is not perfect, garbage has to be protected by comments
-!Dnet/sunrpc/sunrpc_syms.c
--->
 !Enet/sunrpc/xdr.c
 !Enet/sunrpc/svc_xprt.c
 !Enet/sunrpc/xprt.c
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt b/Documentation/kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt
index acbc1a3..12f2c57 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt
@@ -343,9 +343,6 @@ collected from files listed in Documentation/DocBook/Makefile.
 !I<filename> is replaced by the documentation for functions that are
 _not_ exported using EXPORT_SYMBOL.

-!D<filename> is used to name additional files to search for functions
-exported using EXPORT_SYMBOL.
-
 !F<filename> <function [functions...]> is replaced by the
 documentation, in <filename>, for the functions listed.

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