[PATCH 1/2] docs: kernel-doc comments are ASCII

From: Randy Dunlap
Date: Mon Aug 28 2017 - 19:10:20 EST


From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

kernel-doc parsing uses as ASCII codec, so let people know that
kernel-doc comments should be in ASCII characters only.

WARNING: kernel-doc '../scripts/kernel-doc -rst -enable-lineno ../drivers/media/dvb-core/demux.h' processing failed with: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position 6368: ordinal not in range(128)

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/doc-guide/kernel-doc.rst | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

--- lnx-413-rc7.orig/Documentation/doc-guide/kernel-doc.rst
+++ lnx-413-rc7/Documentation/doc-guide/kernel-doc.rst
@@ -108,6 +108,9 @@ The function and type kernel-doc comment
function or type being described. The overview kernel-doc comments may be freely
placed at the top indentation level.

+.. attention:: kernel-doc comments should be written **only** in ASCII
+ characters since they are processed as ASCII input.
+
Example kernel-doc function comment::

/**