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I committed a little bit of cleanup / some XXX comments to the soundsystem, extended the linux(4) man page a little bit and removed some alpha specific section 4 man pages which where overlooked at the time alpha was removed from current.

I think I will enjoy the sun in the backyard a little bit now… [...]

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The last week has seen some bikesheds. One of them was my commit of the doxygen infrastructure for the kernel subsystems. Some people don’t like the way doxygen requires some markup tags in the comments, some people don’t think such API docs provide additional value and some people fear that 3rd party developers may use [...]

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The kernel subsystem API documentation generation framework.

I committed the kernel subsystem API documentation generation framework. It allows to generate the API documentation of a subsystem (with doxygen) just by adding a short config file (around 22 lines with comments and blank lines, maybe 14 lines without comments and blank lines). Here’s an example of such a config:
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PROJECT_NAME [...]

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