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

[Randy Dunlap]

On 5/20/21 11:49 AM, Aditya Srivastava wrote:
> 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 <yashsri421 at gmail.com>

Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap at infradead.org>

Thanks.

> ---
>  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
>   *
>   */
> 


-- 
~Randy