Re: [PATCH] crypto: vmx: fix incorrect kernel-doc comment syntax in files

[Daniel Axtens]

Hi Aditya,

Thanks for your patch!

> The opening comment mark '/**' is used for highlighting the beginning of
> kernel-doc comments.
> There are certain files in drivers/crypto/vmx, which follow this syntax,
> but the content inside does not comply with kernel-doc.
> Such lines were probably not meant for kernel-doc parsing, but are parsed
> due to the presence of kernel-doc like comment syntax(i.e, '/**'), which
> causes unexpected warnings from kernel-doc.
>
> E.g., presence of kernel-doc like comment in the header line for
> drivers/crypto/vmx/vmx.c causes this warning by kernel-doc:
>
> "warning: expecting prototype for Routines supporting VMX instructions on the Power 8(). Prototype was for p8_init() instead"

checkpatch (scripts/checkpatch.pl --strict -g HEAD) complains about this line:
WARNING: Possible unwrapped commit description (prefer a maximum 75 chars per line)
but checkpatch should be ignored here, as you did the right thing by not
breaking an error message across multiple lines.

> Similarly for other files too.
>
> Provide a simple fix by replacing such occurrences with general comment
> format, i.e. '/*', to prevent kernel-doc from parsing it.

This makes sense.

Reviewed-by: Daniel Axtens <dja@xxxxxxxxxx>

Kind regards,
Daniel

>
> Signed-off-by: Aditya Srivastava <yashsri421@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> * Applies perfectly on next-20210319
>
>  drivers/crypto/vmx/aes.c     | 2 +-
>  drivers/crypto/vmx/aes_cbc.c | 2 +-
>  drivers/crypto/vmx/aes_ctr.c | 2 +-
>  drivers/crypto/vmx/aes_xts.c | 2 +-
>  drivers/crypto/vmx/ghash.c   | 2 +-
>  drivers/crypto/vmx/vmx.c     | 2 +-
>  6 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/crypto/vmx/aes.c b/drivers/crypto/vmx/aes.c
> index d05c02baebcf..ec06189fbf99 100644
> --- a/drivers/crypto/vmx/aes.c
> +++ b/drivers/crypto/vmx/aes.c
> @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
>  // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
> -/**
> +/*
>   * AES routines supporting VMX instructions on the Power 8
>   *
>   * Copyright (C) 2015 International Business Machines Inc.
> diff --git a/drivers/crypto/vmx/aes_cbc.c b/drivers/crypto/vmx/aes_cbc.c
> index d88084447f1c..ed0debc7acb5 100644
> --- a/drivers/crypto/vmx/aes_cbc.c
> +++ b/drivers/crypto/vmx/aes_cbc.c
> @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
>  // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
> -/**
> +/*
>   * AES CBC routines supporting VMX instructions on the Power 8
>   *
>   * Copyright (C) 2015 International Business Machines Inc.
> diff --git a/drivers/crypto/vmx/aes_ctr.c b/drivers/crypto/vmx/aes_ctr.c
> index 79ba062ee1c1..9a3da8cd62f3 100644
> --- a/drivers/crypto/vmx/aes_ctr.c
> +++ b/drivers/crypto/vmx/aes_ctr.c
> @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
>  // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
> -/**
> +/*
>   * AES CTR routines supporting VMX instructions on the Power 8
>   *
>   * Copyright (C) 2015 International Business Machines Inc.
> diff --git a/drivers/crypto/vmx/aes_xts.c b/drivers/crypto/vmx/aes_xts.c
> index 9fee1b1532a4..dabbccb41550 100644
> --- a/drivers/crypto/vmx/aes_xts.c
> +++ b/drivers/crypto/vmx/aes_xts.c
> @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
>  // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
> -/**
> +/*
>   * AES XTS routines supporting VMX In-core instructions on Power 8
>   *
>   * Copyright (C) 2015 International Business Machines Inc.
> diff --git a/drivers/crypto/vmx/ghash.c b/drivers/crypto/vmx/ghash.c
> index 14807ac2e3b9..5bc5710a6de0 100644
> --- a/drivers/crypto/vmx/ghash.c
> +++ b/drivers/crypto/vmx/ghash.c
> @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
>  // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> -/**
> +/*
>   * GHASH routines supporting VMX instructions on the Power 8
>   *
>   * Copyright (C) 2015, 2019 International Business Machines Inc.
> diff --git a/drivers/crypto/vmx/vmx.c b/drivers/crypto/vmx/vmx.c
> index a40d08e75fc0..7eb713cc87c8 100644
> --- a/drivers/crypto/vmx/vmx.c
> +++ b/drivers/crypto/vmx/vmx.c
> @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
>  // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
> -/**
> +/*
>   * Routines supporting VMX instructions on the Power 8
>   *
>   * Copyright (C) 2015 International Business Machines Inc.
> -- 
> 2.17.1