Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> writes:

> The texinfo doc generation doesn't care much about
> indentation levels, but we would like to add a rST
> backend, and rST does care about indentation.
>
> Make the doc comments more strongly consistent about indentation
> for multiline constructs like:
>
> @arg: description line 1
>       description line 2
>
> Returns: line one
>          line 2
>
> so that there is always exactly one space after the
> colon, and subsequent lines align with the first.
>
> This commit is a purely whitespace change, and it does
> not alter the generated .texi files (because the texi
> generation code strips away all the extra whitespace).
> This does mean that we end up with some over-length lines.

Overlong lines need to be corrected.  Not necessarily in this patch.

> Note that when the documentation for an argument fits
> on a single line like this:
>
> @arg: one line only
>
> then stray extra spaces after the ':' don't affect the
> rST output, so I have not attempted to methodically
> fix them, though the preference is a single space here too.
>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org>

Same commit message body as PATCH 05, except for the line wrapping.
I like PATCH 05's better.


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