[PATCH] ipac: tpci200: fix kernel-doc syntax and remove filename from file header

Aditya Srivastava yashsri421 at gmail.com
Sat May 22 12:40:51 UTC 2021


The opening comment mark '/**' is used for highlighting the beginning of
kernel-doc comments.
The header for drivers/ipack/carriers/tpci200 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/carriers/tpci200.c emits:
warning: This comment starts with '/**', but isn't a kernel-doc comment. Refer Documentation/doc-guide/kernel-doc.rst
 * tpci200.c

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/carriers/tpci200.c | 4 +---
 drivers/ipack/carriers/tpci200.h | 4 +---
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/ipack/carriers/tpci200.c b/drivers/ipack/carriers/tpci200.c
index ec71063fff76..a867906777bd 100644
--- a/drivers/ipack/carriers/tpci200.c
+++ b/drivers/ipack/carriers/tpci200.c
@@ -1,7 +1,5 @@
 // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
-/**
- * tpci200.c
- *
+/*
  * driver for the TEWS TPCI-200 device
  *
  * Copyright (C) 2009-2012 CERN (www.cern.ch)
diff --git a/drivers/ipack/carriers/tpci200.h b/drivers/ipack/carriers/tpci200.h
index 2619f827e33f..e79ac64abcff 100644
--- a/drivers/ipack/carriers/tpci200.h
+++ b/drivers/ipack/carriers/tpci200.h
@@ -1,7 +1,5 @@
 /* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only */
-/**
- * tpci200.h
- *
+/*
  * driver for the carrier TEWS TPCI-200
  *
  * Copyright (C) 2009-2012 CERN (www.cern.ch)
-- 
2.17.1



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