[PATCH] USB: gadget: udc: fix kernel-doc syntax in file headers

Aditya Srivastava yashsri421 at gmail.com
Sat May 22 11:52:27 UTC 2021


The opening comment mark '/**' is used for highlighting the beginning of
kernel-doc comments.
The header for drivers/usb/gadget/udc/trace 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/usb/gadget/udc/trace.h
emits:
warning: expecting prototype for udc.c(). Prototype was for TRACE_SYSTEM() instead

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>
---
 drivers/usb/gadget/udc/trace.c | 2 +-
 drivers/usb/gadget/udc/trace.h | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/usb/gadget/udc/trace.c b/drivers/usb/gadget/udc/trace.c
index 7430624c0bd7..19e837de2a20 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/gadget/udc/trace.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/gadget/udc/trace.c
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
-/**
+/*
  * trace.c - USB Gadget Framework Trace Support
  *
  * Copyright (C) 2016 Intel Corporation
diff --git a/drivers/usb/gadget/udc/trace.h b/drivers/usb/gadget/udc/trace.h
index 2d1f68b5ea76..98584f6b6c66 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/gadget/udc/trace.h
+++ b/drivers/usb/gadget/udc/trace.h
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
-/**
+/*
  * udc.c - Core UDC Framework
  *
  * Copyright (C) 2016 Intel Corporation
-- 
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