Re: [PATCH] usb: dwc3: exynos: fix incorrect kernel-doc comment syntax

From: Randy Dunlap
Date: Mon Mar 29 2021 - 14:18:36 EST


On 3/29/21 7:03 AM, Aditya Srivastava wrote:
> The opening comment mark '/**' is used for highlighting the beginning of
> kernel-doc comments.
> The header for drivers/usb/dwc3/dwc3-exynos.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: expecting prototype for dwc3(). Prototype was for DWC3_EXYNOS_MAX_CLOCKS() instead"
>
> 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>

> ---
> * Applies perfectly on next-20210326
>
> drivers/usb/dwc3/dwc3-exynos.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/usb/dwc3/dwc3-exynos.c b/drivers/usb/dwc3/dwc3-exynos.c
> index 90bb022737da..0ecf20eeceee 100644
> --- a/drivers/usb/dwc3/dwc3-exynos.c
> +++ b/drivers/usb/dwc3/dwc3-exynos.c
> @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
> // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> -/**
> +/*
> * dwc3-exynos.c - Samsung Exynos DWC3 Specific Glue layer
> *
> * Copyright (c) 2012 Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
>


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~Randy