[PATCH 00/10] rsi: fix comment syntax in file headers

Aditya Srivastava yashsri421 at gmail.com
Sun Mar 14 20:18:08 UTC 2021


The opening comment mark '/**' is used for highlighting the beginning of
kernel-doc comments.
There are files in drivers/net/wireless/rsi which follow this syntax in
their file headers, i.e. start with '/**' like comments, which causes
unexpected warnings from kernel-doc.

E.g., running scripts/kernel-doc -none on drivers/net/wireless/rsi/rsi_coex.h
causes this warning:
"warning: wrong kernel-doc identifier on line:
 * Copyright (c) 2018 Redpine Signals Inc."

Similarly for other files too.

Provide a simple fix by replacing the kernel-doc like comment syntax with
general format, i.e. "/*", to prevent kernel-doc from parsing it.

* The patch series applies perfectly on next-20210312

Aditya Srivastava (10):
  rsi: rsi_boot_params: fix file header comment syntax
  rsi: rsi_coex: fix file header comment syntax
  rsi: rsi_ps: fix file header comment syntax
  rsi: rsi_common: fix file header comment syntax
  rsi: rsi_mgmt: fix file header comment syntax
  rsi: rsi_main: fix file header comment syntax
  rsi: rsi_hal: fix file header comment syntax
  rsi: rsi_debugfs: fix file header comment syntax
  rsi: rsi_sdio: fix file header comment syntax
  rsi: rsi_usb: fix file header comment syntax

 drivers/net/wireless/rsi/rsi_boot_params.h | 2 +-
 drivers/net/wireless/rsi/rsi_coex.h        | 2 +-
 drivers/net/wireless/rsi/rsi_common.h      | 2 +-
 drivers/net/wireless/rsi/rsi_debugfs.h     | 2 +-
 drivers/net/wireless/rsi/rsi_hal.h         | 2 +-
 drivers/net/wireless/rsi/rsi_main.h        | 2 +-
 drivers/net/wireless/rsi/rsi_mgmt.h        | 2 +-
 drivers/net/wireless/rsi/rsi_ps.h          | 2 +-
 drivers/net/wireless/rsi/rsi_sdio.h        | 2 +-
 drivers/net/wireless/rsi/rsi_usb.h         | 2 +-
 10 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

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2.17.1



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