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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Erez Zadok <ezk@cs.sunysb.edu>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	akpm@osdl.org, rdunlap@xenotime.net,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix up kerneldoc in fs/ioctl.c a little bit
Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2008 08:22:42 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080209072242.GA31231@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200802090719.m197JRan023715@agora.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu>

On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 02:19:27AM -0500, Erez Zadok wrote:
> >   * Invokes filesystem specific ->unlocked_ioctl, if one exists; otherwise
> >   * invokes * filesystem specific ->ioctl method.  If neither method exists,
>               ^
> 
> I also think this extra '*' in the last comment line above is spurious,
> perhaps the result of a paragraph reformatting command that mixed comment
> *'s with text.

Indeed.  Updated patch below:


Index: linux-2.6/fs/ioctl.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/fs/ioctl.c	2008-02-09 07:51:31.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6/fs/ioctl.c	2008-02-09 08:21:30.000000000 +0100
@@ -18,12 +18,12 @@
 
 /**
  * vfs_ioctl - call filesystem specific ioctl methods
- * @filp: [in]     open file to invoke ioctl method on
- * @cmd:  [in]     ioctl command to execute
- * @arg:  [in/out] command-specific argument for ioctl
+ * @filp:	open file to invoke ioctl method on
+ * @cmd:	ioctl command to execute
+ * @arg:	command-specific argument for ioctl
  *
  * Invokes filesystem specific ->unlocked_ioctl, if one exists; otherwise
- * invokes * filesystem specific ->ioctl method.  If neither method exists,
+ * invokes filesystem specific ->ioctl method.  If neither method exists,
  * returns -ENOTTY.
  *
  * Returns 0 on success, -errno on error.

      reply	other threads:[~2008-02-09  7:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-09  7:15 [PATCH] fix up kerneldoc in fs/ioctl.c a little bit Christoph Hellwig
2008-02-09  7:19 ` Erez Zadok
2008-02-09  7:22   ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]

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