From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric Dumazet Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 net-next 07/27] net: add for_each iterators through neighbour lower link's private Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 04:43:02 -0700 Message-ID: <1379418182.3457.2.camel@edumazet-glaptop> References: <1379378812-18346-1-git-send-email-vfalico@redhat.com> <1379378812-18346-8-git-send-email-vfalico@redhat.com> <1379381203.23881.22.camel@deadeye.wl.decadent.org.uk> <20130917073618.GC18195@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Ben Hutchings , netdev@vger.kernel.org, jiri@resnulli.us, "David S. Miller" , Eric Dumazet , Alexander Duyck To: Veaceslav Falico Return-path: Received: from mail-pd0-f179.google.com ([209.85.192.179]:42481 "EHLO mail-pd0-f179.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752748Ab3IQLnE (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Sep 2013 07:43:04 -0400 Received: by mail-pd0-f179.google.com with SMTP id v10so5439742pde.38 for ; Tue, 17 Sep 2013 04:43:03 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20130917073618.GC18195@redhat.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, 2013-09-17 at 09:36 +0200, Veaceslav Falico wrote: > On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 02:26:43AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > >On Tue, 2013-09-17 at 02:46 +0200, Veaceslav Falico wrote: > >[...] > >> --- a/net/core/dev.c > >> +++ b/net/core/dev.c > >> @@ -4537,6 +4537,72 @@ struct net_device *netdev_all_upper_get_next_dev_rcu(struct net_device *dev, > >> } > >> EXPORT_SYMBOL(netdev_all_upper_get_next_dev_rcu); > >> > >> +/* netdev_lower_get_next_private - Get the next ->private from the > >> + * lower neighbour list > >[...] > > > >This is not correct kernel-doc syntax. You must begin the comment like > >this: > > > >/** > > * function_name - summary on one physical line, no wrapping allowed > > I've thought that netdev specifically requires that type of comments*. But > I don't have any strong opinion on that, so if needed - can change easily > in the next version. > > Thanks a lot! > > *Documentation/networking/netdev-FAQ.txt > > Q: Someone said that the comment style and coding convention is different > for the networking content. Is this true? > > A: Yes, in a largely trivial way. Instead of this: > > /* > * foobar blah blah blah > * another line of text > */ > > it is requested that you make it look like this: > > /* foobar blah blah blah > * another line of text > */ > > Thats for comments, not kernel-doc sections. You provided : +/* netdev_lower_get_next_private - Get the next ->private from the + * lower neighbour list + * @dev: device + * @iter: list_head ** of the current position + * + * Gets the next netdev_adjacent->private from the dev's lower neighbour + * list, starting from iter position. The caller must hold either hold the + * RTNL lock or its own locking that guarantees that the neighbour lower + * list will remain unchainged. If iter is NULL - return the first private. + */ Which really looks like a kernel-doc section, but misses the proper delimiter which is : /** Not /*