From ddad86c2d6f660112c6ce8aabae6ffd346e25b9b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Martin Waitz Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2005 16:08:14 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] DocBook: include printk documentation Add printk documentation to kernel-api. Signed-off-by: Martin Waitz Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- kernel/printk.c | 16 ++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'kernel') diff --git a/kernel/printk.c b/kernel/printk.c index e9be027bc93..ac8a08f3620 100644 --- a/kernel/printk.c +++ b/kernel/printk.c @@ -491,7 +491,10 @@ __attribute__((weak)) unsigned long long printk_clock(void) return sched_clock(); } -/* +/** + * printk - print a kernel message + * @fmt: format string + * * This is printk. It can be called from any context. We want it to work. * * We try to grab the console_sem. If we succeed, it's easy - we log the output and @@ -503,6 +506,9 @@ __attribute__((weak)) unsigned long long printk_clock(void) * One effect of this deferred printing is that code which calls printk() and * then changes console_loglevel may break. This is because console_loglevel * is inspected when the actual printing occurs. + * + * See also: + * printf(3) */ asmlinkage int printk(const char *fmt, ...) @@ -655,6 +661,9 @@ static void call_console_drivers(unsigned long start, unsigned long end) /** * add_preferred_console - add a device to the list of preferred consoles. + * @name: device name + * @idx: device index + * @options: options for this console * * The last preferred console added will be used for kernel messages * and stdin/out/err for init. Normally this is used by console_setup @@ -764,7 +773,8 @@ void release_console_sem(void) } EXPORT_SYMBOL(release_console_sem); -/** console_conditional_schedule - yield the CPU if required +/** + * console_conditional_schedule - yield the CPU if required * * If the console code is currently allowed to sleep, and * if this CPU should yield the CPU to another task, do @@ -976,6 +986,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(unregister_console); /** * tty_write_message - write a message to a certain tty, not just the console. + * @tty: the destination tty_struct + * @msg: the message to write * * This is used for messages that need to be redirected to a specific tty. * We don't put it into the syslog queue right now maybe in the future if -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2