Re: [PATCH] Phonet: fix kernel-doc syntax in file headers

Rémi Denis-Courmont
2021-05-22T09:35:20Z

Le jeudi 20 mai 2021, 21:21:59 EEST Aditya Srivastava a écrit :
> The opening comment mark '/**' is used for highlighting the beginning of
> kernel-doc comments.
> The header for include/*/linux/phonet.h files follows this syntax, but
> the content inside does not comply with kernel-doc.
>
> This line was probably not meant for kernel-doc parsing, but is parsed
> due to the presence of kernel-doc like comment syntax(i.e, '/**'), which
> causes unexpected warning from kernel-doc.
> For e.g., running scripts/kernel-doc -none include/linux/phonet.h emits:
> warning: This comment starts with '/**', but isn't a kernel-doc comment.
> Refer Documentation/doc-guide/kernel-doc.rst * file phonet.h
>
> Provide a simple fix by replacing this occurrence with general comment
> format, i.e. '/*', to prevent kernel-doc from parsing it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Aditya Srivastava <yashsri421@gmail.com>

You could just as well remove the stray "file XX" lines but OK.

Acked-by: Rémi Denis-Courmont <courmisch@gmail.com.>

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Rémi Denis-Courmont