Re: [PATCH v4 00/11] Transform documentation into POD

From: Randy Dunlap
Date: Tue Feb 22 2022 - 00:40:03 EST


Hi Tomasz,

On 2/18/22 10:16, Tomasz Warniełło wrote:
> This series transforms the free-form general comments - mainly the usage
> instructions and the meta information - into the standard Perl
> documentation format. Some of the original text is reduced out. And some
> is simply dropped.
>
> The transformation includes language, paragraphing and editorial
> corrections.
>
> The only change in the script execution flow is the replacement of the
> 'usage' function with the native standard Perl 'pod2usage'.
>
> The to-do suggestion to write POD found in the script is ancient, thus
> I can't address its author with a "Suggested-by" tag.
>
> This version follows the advice received on v3, except I'm leaving
> the old copyrights untouched.
>
> The process consists of 14 steps.
>
> Patches beginning with no 3 are disfunctional until no 9 has been
> applied.
>
> 1) Add the basic POD sections
> 2) Relink argument parsing error handling to pod2usage
>
> The following subseries is disfunctional before its last part.
>
> 3) Translate the DESCRIPTION section
> 4) Translate the "Output format selection" subsection of OPTIONS
> 5) Translate the "Output format selection modifier" subsection of OPTIONS
> 6) Translate the "Output selection" subsection of OPTIONS
> 7) Translate the "Output selection modifiers" subsection of OPTIONS
> 8) Translate the "Other parameters" subsection of OPTIONS
> 9) Replace the usage function
>
> Here the DESCRIPTION and OPTIONS subseries is finished. The -h and -help
> parameters are handled by POD now.
>
> 10) Drop obsolete comments
> 11) Refresh the copyright lines
>
> Let's see what's wrong this time.

This patch series looks good to me.
I'll do some testing with it now.

thanks.

> Tomasz Warniełło (11):
> scripts: kernel-doc: Add the basic POD sections
> scripts: kernel-doc: Relink argument parsing error handling to
> pod2usage
> scripts: kernel-doc: Translate the DESCRIPTION section
> scripts: kernel-doc: Translate the "Output format selection"
> subsection of OPTIONS
> scripts: kernel-doc: Translate the "Output format selection modifier"
> subsection of OPTIONS
> scripts: kernel-doc: Translate the "Output selection" subsection of
> OPTIONS
> scripts: kernel-doc: Translate the "Output selection modifiers"
> subsection of OPTIONS
> scripts: kernel-doc: Translate the "Other parameters" subsection of
> OPTIONS
> scripts: kernel-doc: Replace the usage function
> scripts: kernel-doc: Drop obsolete comments
> scripts: kernel-doc: Refresh the copyright lines
>
> scripts/kernel-doc | 347 +++++++++++++++++++++------------------------
> 1 file changed, 159 insertions(+), 188 deletions(-)
>
>
> base-commit: 2a987e65025e2b79c6d453b78cb5985ac6e5eb26

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~Randy