Re: [PATCH] crypto: chelsio: fix incorrect kernel-doc comment syntax in file

[Randy Dunlap]

On 3/29/21 3:45 AM, Aditya Srivastava wrote:
> The opening comment mark '/**' is used for highlighting the beginning of
> kernel-doc comments.
> The header for drivers/crypto/chelsio/chcr_core.c 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:
> "warning: wrong kernel-doc identifier on line:
>  * This file is part of the Chelsio T4/T5/T6 Ethernet driver for Linux."
> 
> Provide a simple fix by replacing this occurrence with general comment
> format, i.e. '/*', to prevent kernel-doc from parsing it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Aditya Srivastava <yashsri421@xxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks.

> ---
>  drivers/crypto/chelsio/chcr_core.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/crypto/chelsio/chcr_core.c b/drivers/crypto/chelsio/chcr_core.c
> index f91f9d762a45..f03ef4a23f96 100644
> --- a/drivers/crypto/chelsio/chcr_core.c
> +++ b/drivers/crypto/chelsio/chcr_core.c
> @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
> -/**
> +/*
>   * This file is part of the Chelsio T4/T5/T6 Ethernet driver for Linux.
>   *
>   * Copyright (C) 2011-2016 Chelsio Communications.  All rights reserved.
> 


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~Randy