[PATCH] ipac: ipoctal: fix kernel-doc syntax and remove filename from file headers

Aditya Srivastava yashsri421 at gmail.com
Sat May 22 12:19:44 UTC 2021


The opening comment mark '/**' is used for highlighting the beginning of
kernel-doc comments.
The header for drivers/ipack/devices/ipoctal 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 on
drivers/ipack/devices/ipoctal.h emits:
warning: This comment starts with '/**', but isn't a kernel-doc comment. Refer Documentation/doc-guide/kernel-doc.rst
 * ipoctal.h

Provide a simple fix by replacing this occurrence with general comment
format, i.e. '/*', to prevent kernel-doc from parsing it.

Also remove the redundant file name from the comment headers.

Signed-off-by: Aditya Srivastava <yashsri421 at gmail.com>
---
 drivers/ipack/devices/ipoctal.c | 4 +---
 drivers/ipack/devices/ipoctal.h | 6 ++----
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/ipack/devices/ipoctal.c b/drivers/ipack/devices/ipoctal.c
index 3940714e4397..2a3a94f72dfb 100644
--- a/drivers/ipack/devices/ipoctal.c
+++ b/drivers/ipack/devices/ipoctal.c
@@ -1,7 +1,5 @@
 // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
-/**
- * ipoctal.c
- *
+/*
  * driver for the GE IP-OCTAL boards
  *
  * Copyright (C) 2009-2012 CERN (www.cern.ch)
diff --git a/drivers/ipack/devices/ipoctal.h b/drivers/ipack/devices/ipoctal.h
index 75f83ba774a4..773dc41bd667 100644
--- a/drivers/ipack/devices/ipoctal.h
+++ b/drivers/ipack/devices/ipoctal.h
@@ -1,9 +1,7 @@
 /* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only */
-/**
- * ipoctal.h
- *
+/*
  * driver for the IPOCTAL boards
-
+ *
  * Copyright (C) 2009-2012 CERN (www.cern.ch)
  * Author: Nicolas Serafini, EIC2 SA
  * Author: Samuel Iglesias Gonsalvez <siglesias at igalia.com>
-- 
2.17.1



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