Re: [PATCH] s390/crypto: fix all kernel-doc warnings in vfio_ap_ops.c

[Tony Krowiak]

Thanks Randy.

On 8/6/21 9:38 PM, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> On 8/6/21 6:26 AM, Tony Krowiak wrote:
> > Reviewed-by: Tony Krowiak <akrowiak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Pardon my ignorance, but this is the first I've seen of kernel-doc 
> > warnings.
> > Is there a flag I can set when I build to get kernel-doc warnings? Is 
> > there a tool I can run?
> > Where is the kernel-doc format documented? I'd like to avoid this in 
> > the future.
>
> Hi,
>
> Here is the 0day bot report:
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/202108010650.DLRzJOtm-lkp@xxxxxxxxx/
> (not sent to any of your group, sadly).
>
> kernel-doc format is documented in 
> Documentation/doc-guide/kernel-doc.rst.
>
> The 0day bot lists the reproduction steps. It used clang but I used
> gcc. Shouldn't matter in this case. The main point from the 0day bot
> is that "this is a W=1 build".  Using W=1 causes checks for extra
> C compiler warnings and also it causes checks for documentation build
> errors/warnings.
>
> In your build environment, using "make W=1 ARCH=s390 allmodconfig all"
> will produce lots of output (both compiler and kernel-doc output).
> I suppose that is the expected way to do it.
>
> AFAIK there is no support for something like "make W=1 htmldocs"
> to just check for kernel-doc errors/warnings in source files, so what
> I do when I am targeting only one source file is something like what
> is documented in the file referenced above:
>
> "Running the ``kernel-doc`` tool with increased verbosity and without 
> actual
> output generation may be used to verify proper formatting of the
> documentation comments. For example::
>
>     scripts/kernel-doc -v -none drivers/foo/bar.c
> "
> and then I script that for ease of use.
> Using the latter command reports lots more kernel-doc warnings than
> the 0day bot reported, so I fixed all of them that it found.
>
>
> HTH.
>
>
> > On 8/6/21 1:01 AM, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> > > The 0day bot reported some kernel-doc warnings in this file so clean up
> > > all of the kernel-doc and use proper kernel-doc formatting.
> > > There are no more kernel-doc errors or warnings reported in this file.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: Tony Krowiak <akrowiak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: Halil Pasic <pasic@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: Jason Herne <jjherne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: Harald Freudenberger <freude@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: linux-s390@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > ---
> > >   drivers/s390/crypto/vfio_ap_ops.c |  116 ++++++++++++----------------
> > >   1 file changed, 52 insertions(+), 64 deletions(-)