Re: [PATCH net-next] net/skbuff: fix up kernel-doc placement

From: David Miller
Date: Tue Feb 12 2019 - 12:55:23 EST


From: Brian Norris <briannorris@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2019 13:02:25 -0800

> There are several skb_* functions where the locked and unlocked
> functions are confusingly documented. For several of them, the
> kernel-doc for the unlocked version is placed above the locked version,
> which to the casual reader makes it seems like the locked version "takes
> no locks and you must therefore hold required locks before calling it."
>
> One can see, for example, that this link claims to document
> skb_queue_head(), while instead describing __skb_queue_head().
>
> https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/networking/kapi.html#c.skb_queue_head
>
> The correct documentation for skb_queue_head() is also included further
> down the page.
>
> This diff tested via:
>
> $ scripts/kernel-doc -rst include/linux/skbuff.h net/core/skbuff.c
>
> No new warnings were seen, and the output makes a little more sense.
>
> Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <briannorris@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Applied, thanks Brian.