Re: [PATCH] iommu/vt-d: fix kernel-doc syntax in file header

[Randy Dunlap]

On 5/23/21 7:32 AM, Aditya Srivastava wrote:
> The opening comment mark '/**' is used for highlighting the beginning of
> kernel-doc comments.
> The header for drivers/iommu/intel/pasid.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 warnings from kernel-doc:
> warning: Function parameter or member 'fmt' not described in 'pr_fmt'
> 
> 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/iommu/intel/pasid.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/iommu/intel/pasid.c b/drivers/iommu/intel/pasid.c
> index 72646bafc52f..aaffb226a6a9 100644
> --- a/drivers/iommu/intel/pasid.c
> +++ b/drivers/iommu/intel/pasid.c
> @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
>  // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> -/**
> +/*
>   * intel-pasid.c - PASID idr, table and entry manipulation
>   *
>   * Copyright (C) 2018 Intel Corporation
> 


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~Randy