Thread (7 messages) 7 messages, 3 authors, 2021-05-23

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

From: Randy Dunlap <hidden>
Date: 2021-05-20 18:30:39
Also in: linux-doc, lkml

On 5/20/21 11:21 AM, Aditya Srivastava wrote:
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 <redacted>
Hi,
This all looks good, but it would be even better to remove
the file names. We tend to prefer not to have filenames in their files
because they get moved or renamed -- and because it's redundant info.

Anyway,
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <redacted>

Thanks.
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
---
 include/linux/phonet.h      | 2 +-
 include/uapi/linux/phonet.h | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/phonet.h b/include/linux/phonet.h
index bc7d1e529efc..09ecb1f94c5e 100644
--- a/include/linux/phonet.h
+++ b/include/linux/phonet.h
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only */
-/**
+/*
  * file phonet.h
  *
  * Phonet sockets kernel interface
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/phonet.h b/include/uapi/linux/phonet.h
index a2f6b37a5937..6b873c460994 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/phonet.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/phonet.h
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note */
-/**
+/*
  * file phonet.h
  *
  * Phonet sockets kernel interface

-- 
~Randy

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