Re: [PATCH 1/1] Reformat return value descriptions as ReST lists.

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 07:28:23PM +0000, peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Added line breaks and blank lines to separate list items and escaped end-of-line
> colons.
> 
> This removes these warnings from doc build...
> 
> ./drivers/net/phy/sfp-bus.c:579: WARNING: Unexpected indentation.
> ./drivers/net/phy/sfp-bus.c:619: WARNING: Unexpected indentation.

I'm all in favour of removing warnings, but I think you've fixed this
the wrong way.

> @@ -572,12 +572,18 @@ static void sfp_upstream_clear(struct sfp_bus *bus)
>   * the sfp_bus structure, incrementing its reference count.  This must
>   * be put via sfp_bus_put() when done.
>   *
> - * Returns: on success, a pointer to the sfp_bus structure,
> + * Returns\:

This should be Return: (not Returns:) and marks a section header,
not the beginning of the list.  See the "Return values" section
in Documentation/doc-guide/kernel-doc.rst

> + *
> + *          on success, a pointer to the sfp_bus structure,
>   *	    %NULL if no SFP is specified,
> + *
>   * 	    on failure, an error pointer value:
> + *
>   * 		corresponding to the errors detailed for
>   * 		fwnode_property_get_reference_args().
> + *
>   * 	        %-ENOMEM if we failed to allocate the bus.
> + *
>   *		an error from the upstream's connect_phy() method.

Seems to me this should use the " * * VALUE - Description" format
described in the document I mentioned above.