Re: [PATCH] kmalloc man page before 2.6.17

[Pekka J Enberg]

On Fri, 26 May 2006, Paul Drynoff wrote:
> Actually, this is not full duplication:
> __do_kmalloc(size_t size, gfp_t flags,
>                                          void *caller)
> and
> void *kmalloc(size_t size, gfp_t gfp)
> 
> they have different amount of arguments and different arguments names.
> 
> But as I see include/linux/slab.h is better place. See patch.
> 
> It will be great to create another entry for flags of "kmalloc* family
> functions,
> so we can avoid duplication of this in __do_kmalloc and kmalloc
> comments, but I don't know is it possible with scripts/kernel-doc.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Paul Drynoff <pauldrynoff@xxxxxxxxx>

Just drop the __do_kmalloc() comment completely.  Did you check that 
kerneldoc picks it up for the generated API docs?  Btw, you should send 
this to Andrew at akpm@xxxxxxxx instead of Linus.

				Pekka
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