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

Lukas Bulwahn lukas.bulwahn at gmail.com
Mon Mar 15 08:01:56 UTC 2021


On Sun, Mar 14, 2021 at 9:18 PM Aditya Srivastava <yashsri421 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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.
>

Aditya, thanks for starting to clean up the repository following your
investigation on kernel-doc warnings.

The changes to all those files look sound.

However I think these ten patches are really just _one change_, and
hence, all can be put into a single commit.

Hints that suggest it is one change:

- The commit message is pretty much the same (same motivation, same
explanation, same design decisions)
- The change is basically the same (same resulting change in different files)
- All patches are sent to the same responsible people, all of the
patches would be reviewed and accepted by the same people.
- All ten patches can be reviewed at once.

How about merging all ten patches into one patch and sending out a v2.

Lukas


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