Thread (3 messages) 3 messages, 3 authors, 2021-05-20

[PATCH] net: encx24j600: fix kernel-doc syntax in file headers

From: Aditya Srivastava <hidden>
Date: 2021-05-20 18:49:31
Also in: linux-kernel-mentees, lkml, netdev
Subsystem: networking drivers, the rest · Maintainers: Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds

The opening comment mark '/**' is used for highlighting the beginning of
kernel-doc comments.
The header for drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/encx24j600 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
drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/encx24j600_hw.h emits:
warning: expecting prototype for h(). Prototype was for _ENCX24J600_HW_H() instead

Provide a simple fix by replacing such occurrences with general comment
format, i.e. '/*', to prevent kernel-doc from parsing it.

Signed-off-by: Aditya Srivastava <redacted>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/encx24j600.c    | 2 +-
 drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/encx24j600_hw.h | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/encx24j600.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/encx24j600.c
index 3658c4ae3c37..ee921a99e439 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/encx24j600.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/encx24j600.c
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
-/**
+/*
  * Microchip ENCX24J600 ethernet driver
  *
  * Copyright (C) 2015 Gridpoint
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/encx24j600_hw.h b/drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/encx24j600_hw.h
index f604a260ede7..fac61a8fbd02 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/encx24j600_hw.h
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/encx24j600_hw.h
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
-/**
+/*
  * encx24j600_hw.h: Register definitions
  *
  */
-- 
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