docs: kdoc_files: document KernelFiles() ABI

The KernelFiles is the main entry point to run kernel-doc,
being used by both tools/docs/kernel-doc and
Documentation/sphinx/kerneldoc.py.

It is also used on QEMU, which also uses the kernel-doc
libraries from tools/lib/python/kdoc.

Properly describe its ABI contract.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <13eb44c341232564eaf2a9c9de4782369fef57e1.1772810574.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
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Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2026-03-06 16:25:15 +01:00
committed by Jonathan Corbet
parent 861dcdb6ad
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@@ -91,7 +91,49 @@ class KernelFiles():
"""
Parse kernel-doc tags on multiple kernel source files.
There are two type of parsers defined here:
This is the main entry point to run kernel-doc. This class is initialized
using a series of optional arguments:
``verbose``
If True, enables kernel-doc verbosity. Default: False.
``out_style``
Class to be used to format output. If None (default),
only report errors.
``xforms``
Transforms to be applied to C prototypes and data structs.
If not specified, defaults to xforms = CFunction()
``werror``
If True, treat warnings as errors, retuning an error code on warnings.
Default: False.
``wreturn``
If True, warns about the lack of a return markup on functions.
Default: False.
``wshort_desc``
If True, warns if initial short description is missing.
Default: False.
``wcontents_before_sections``
If True, warn if there are contents before sections (deprecated).
This option is kept just for backward-compatibility, but it does
nothing, neither here nor at the original Perl script.
Default: False.
``logger``
Optional logger class instance.
If not specified, defaults to use: ``logging.getLogger("kernel-doc")``
Note:
There are two type of parsers defined here:
- self.parse_file(): parses both kernel-doc markups and
``EXPORT_SYMBOL*`` macros;
- self.process_export_file(): parses only ``EXPORT_SYMBOL*`` macros.