Re: [PATCH v3] VFS: d_duplicate: repair comments to avoid kernel-doc warnings
From: Jan Kara
Date: Thu Oct 01 2026 - 04:51:07 EST
On Wed 30-09-26 19:17:45, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> Use a typical list style for comments to prevent kernel-doc warnings:
>
> Documentation/filesystems/api-summary:20: ../fs/dcache.c:2029: ERROR: Unexpected indentation. [docutils]
> Documentation/filesystems/api-summary:20: ../fs/dcache.c:2030: WARNING: Block quote ends without a blank line; unexpected unindent. [docutils]
>
> Also, modify the spelling of "whiteout" to match all other uses in
> the kernel source tree and to be consistent on the same line.
>
> Fixes: 33d76519f0cc ("VFS: add d_duplicate()")
> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Looks good. Feel free to add:
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
Honza
> ---
> v3: use one colon for the list, not "::" for a literal block (Neil).
> Add linux-doc etc. to Cc: list.
> v2: dropped Jan's Reviewed-by since the patch changed.
>
> Cc: NeilBrown <neil@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-fsdevel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Shuah Khan <skhan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-doc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> fs/dcache.c | 11 ++++++-----
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> --- linux-next-20260930.orig/fs/dcache.c
> +++ linux-next-20260930/fs/dcache.c
> @@ -2025,11 +2025,12 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(d_alloc);
> * @dentry: the dentry to duplicate
> *
> * Some rename operations need to be combined with another operation
> - * inside the filesystem.
> - * 1/ A cluster filesystem when renaming to an in-use file might need to
> - * first "silly-rename" that target out of the way before the main rename
> - * 2/ A filesystem that supports white-out might want to create a whiteout
> - * in place of the file being moved.
> + * inside the filesystem:
> + *
> + * 1. A cluster filesystem when renaming to an in-use file might need to
> + * first "silly-rename" that target out of the way before the main rename
> + * 2. A filesystem that supports whiteout might want to create a whiteout
> + * in place of the file being moved.
> *
> * For this they need two dentries which temporarily have the same name,
> * before one is renamed. d_duplicate() provides for this. Given a
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Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx>
SUSE Labs, CR