From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: mm-commits@vger.kernel.org,kees@kernel.org,djwong@kernel.org,andriy.shevchenko@intel.com,dmantipov@yandex.ru,akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: + lib-cmdline-adjust-a-few-comments-to-fix-kernel-doc-wreturn-warnings.patch added to mm-nonmm-unstable branch
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2026 13:34:44 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260220213445.79E89C116C6@smtp.kernel.org> (raw)
The patch titled
Subject: lib/cmdline: adjust a few comments to fix kernel-doc -Wreturn warnings
has been added to the -mm mm-nonmm-unstable branch. Its filename is
lib-cmdline-adjust-a-few-comments-to-fix-kernel-doc-wreturn-warnings.patch
This patch will shortly appear at
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/lib-cmdline-adjust-a-few-comments-to-fix-kernel-doc-wreturn-warnings.patch
This patch will later appear in the mm-nonmm-unstable branch at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
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From: Dmitry Antipov <dmantipov@yandex.ru>
Subject: lib/cmdline: adjust a few comments to fix kernel-doc -Wreturn warnings
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2026 19:44:13 +0300
Fix 'get_option()', 'memparse()' and 'parse_option_str()' comments to
match the commonly used style as suggested by kernel-doc -Wreturn.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260212164413.889625-6-dmantipov@yandex.ru
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Antipov <dmantipov@yandex.ru>
Suggested-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@intel.com>
Cc: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---
lib/cmdline.c | 7 +++++--
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/lib/cmdline.c~lib-cmdline-adjust-a-few-comments-to-fix-kernel-doc-wreturn-warnings
+++ a/lib/cmdline.c
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ static int get_range(char **str, int *pi
* When @pint is NULL the function can be used as a validator of
* the current option in the string.
*
- * Return values:
+ * Return:
* 0 - no int in string
* 1 - int found, no subsequent comma
* 2 - int found including a subsequent comma
@@ -145,6 +145,9 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(get_options);
*
* Parses a string into a number. The number stored at @ptr is
* potentially suffixed with K, M, G, T, P, E.
+ *
+ * Return: The value as recognized by simple_strtoull() multiplied
+ * by the value as specified by suffix, if any.
*/
unsigned long long memparse(const char *ptr, char **retptr)
@@ -205,7 +208,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(memparse);
* This function parses a string containing a comma-separated list of
* strings like a=b,c.
*
- * Return true if there's such option in the string, or return false.
+ * Return: True if there's such option in the string or false otherwise.
*/
bool parse_option_str(const char *str, const char *option)
{
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from dmantipov@yandex.ru are
lib-fix-_parse_integer_limit-to-handle-overflow.patch
lib-fix-memparse-to-handle-overflow.patch
lib-add-more-string-to-64-bit-integer-conversion-overflow-tests.patch
lib-cmdline_kunit-add-test-case-for-memparse.patch
lib-cmdline-adjust-a-few-comments-to-fix-kernel-doc-wreturn-warnings.patch
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