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

Aditya Srivastava yashsri421 at gmail.com
Thu May 20 18:21:59 UTC 2021


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 <yashsri421 at gmail.com>
---
 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
-- 
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