Re: nested structs parsing

[Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>]

On Thu, 2018-03-29 at 11:46 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> For a while I haven't looked at my documentation for 802.11, and now I
> noticed I'm getting warnings due to the nested parsing.
> 
> However, something seems to be wrong? I have, for example, this (in
> net/mac80211/sta_info.h)
> 
> struct sta_info {
> 	...
>         struct {
>                 u64 packets[IEEE80211_NUM_ACS];
>                 u64 bytes[IEEE80211_NUM_ACS];
>                 struct ieee80211_tx_rate last_rate;
>                 u64 msdu[IEEE80211_NUM_TIDS + 1];
>         } tx_stats;
> };
> 
> but I'm getting the following warnings now, with only "@tx_stats" being
> described in the documentation:
> 
> net/mac80211/sta_info.h:590: warning: Function parameter or member 'status_stats.last_ack' not described in 'sta_info'
> net/mac80211/sta_info.h:590: warning: Function parameter or member 'status_stats.last_ack_signal' not described in 'sta_info'
> net/mac80211/sta_info.h:590: warning: Function parameter or member 'status_stats.ack_signal_filled' not described in 'sta_info'
> net/mac80211/sta_info.h:590: warning: Function parameter or member 'msdu' not described in 'sta_info'
> 
> I can understand the first three of those, but not the last one? Why is
> the last one not qualified?
> 
> If I change it to this:
> 
>         struct {
>                 u64 packets[IEEE80211_NUM_ACS];
>                 u64 bytes[IEEE80211_NUM_ACS];
>                 /**
>                  * @last_rate: last TX rate
>                  */
>                 struct ieee80211_tx_rate last_rate;
>                 /**
>                  * @msdu: # of MSDUs per TID
>                  */
>                 u64 msdu[IEEE80211_NUM_TIDS + 1];
>         } tx_stats;
> 
> I still get a warning on "tx_stats.last_rate", but not on "msdu", which
> is sort of obvious from the warning text, but also rather unexpected.
> 
> Normally I'd say that the "msdu" warning is originally wrong
> 
> However, I'd also argue that if I'm using inline declarations, I
> shouldn't have to write it like this:
> 
>         struct {
>                 u64 packets[IEEE80211_NUM_ACS];
>                 u64 bytes[IEEE80211_NUM_ACS];
>                 /**
>                  * @tx_stats.last_rate: last TX rate
>                  */
>                 struct ieee80211_tx_rate last_rate;
> 	...
> 	} tx_stats;

Whoops, sent a fraction of a second too early - this actually causes a
warning too (no idea why four times):

net/mac80211/sta_info.h:560: warning: Incorrect use of kernel-doc format:                  * @tx_stats.last_rate: last TX rate
net/mac80211/sta_info.h:560: warning: Incorrect use of kernel-doc format:                  * @tx_stats.last_rate: last TX rate
net/mac80211/sta_info.h:560: warning: Incorrect use of kernel-doc format:                  * @tx_stats.last_rate: last TX rate
net/mac80211/sta_info.h:560: warning: Incorrect use of kernel-doc format:                  * @tx_stats.last_rate: last TX rate

johannes