scripts: kernel-doc: Translate the DESCRIPTION section

Transition the description section into POD. This is one of the standard
documentation sections. This adjustment makes the section available for
POD and makes it look better.

Notes:
- an article addition
- paragraphing correction

Signed-off-by: Tomasz Warniełło <tomasz.warniello@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Disliked-by: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220218181628.1411551-4-tomasz.warniello@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Tomasz Warniełło 2022-02-18 19:16:20 +01:00 committed by Jonathan Corbet
parent 43caf1a682
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@ -41,6 +41,15 @@ kernel-doc - Print formatted kernel documentation to stdout
Run `kernel-doc -h` for details.
=head1 DESCRIPTION
Read C language source or header FILEs, extract embedded documentation comments,
and print formatted documentation to standard output.
The documentation comments are identified by the "/**" opening comment mark.
See Documentation/doc-guide/kernel-doc.rst for the documentation comment syntax.
=cut
# 18/01/2001 - Cleanups
@ -72,12 +81,6 @@ sub usage {
my $message = <<"EOF";
Usage: $0 [OPTION ...] FILE ...
Read C language source or header FILEs, extract embedded documentation comments,
and print formatted documentation to standard output.
The documentation comments are identified by "/**" opening comment mark. See
Documentation/doc-guide/kernel-doc.rst for the documentation comment syntax.
Output format selection (mutually exclusive):
-man Output troff manual page format. This is the default.
-rst Output reStructuredText format.