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Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Thu May 18 10:40:03 PDT 2006


In message <m2ejyrl0gd.wl%gnn at neville-neil.com>, "George V. Neville-Neil" write
s:
>At Thu, 18 May 2006 15:47:30 +0200,
>Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>> Part of the problem is that there will never be a "definitive kernel
>> API manual" for FreeBSD, it will always be in flux and therefore
>> drivers will need to be updated to keep abreast.
>
>I so hate to chime in on this thread, but I really think we need to
>start putting things into the code and using Doxygen, or a moral
>equivalent, to at least have a chance of keeping such things up to
>date.  Someone a while back set up a proper Doxygen file for use with
>FreeBSD and we might simply pursue that tack.

I've not been very impressed with what I've seen from sources using
this approach, but I guess having the prototypes with one line
comments is better than nothing.

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