Re: linux-next: build warning after merge of the pci tree

From: Krzysztof Wilczyński
Date: Mon Jul 01 2024 - 16:16:22 EST


Hello,

[...]
> > After merging the pci tree, today's linux-next build (htmldocs) produced
> > this warning:
> >
> > Documentation/driver-api/pci/pci:10: drivers/pci/devres.c:556: WARNING: Inline emphasis start-string without end-string.
> >
> > Introduced by commit
> >
> > 06fa2e1e9116 ("PCI: Deprecate pcim_iomap_table(), pcim_iomap_regions_request_all()")
>
> I fixed by changing * to \* here:
>
> * void __iomem \*mappy = pcim_iomap(pdev, bar, length);

I wonder if the following hack would work too:

void __iomem * mappy = pcim_iomap(pdev, bar, length);

Separate the asterisks from the name, so that the parser will no longer try
to make "mappy" bold.

Also, "mappy"... Philipp, this is so amazingly cringe. :)

Krzysztof