Re: [PATCH] efi: stmm: fix kernel-doc "bad line" warnings

From: Ilias Apalodimas

Date: Tue Nov 11 2025 - 03:50:56 EST


Hi Randy

On Tue, 11 Nov 2025 at 08:02, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Add a beginning " *" to each line to avoid kernel-doc warnings:
>
> Warning: drivers/firmware/efi/stmm/mm_communication.h:34 bad line:
> Warning: drivers/firmware/efi/stmm/mm_communication.h:113 bad line:
> Warning: drivers/firmware/efi/stmm/mm_communication.h:130 bad line:
>
> Fixes: c44b6be62e8d ("efi: Add tee-based EFI variable driver")
> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Is the fixes tag necessary here?
Acked-by: Ilias Apalodimas <ilias.apalodimas@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks
/Ilias
> ---
> Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-efi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: linux-arm-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: Maxime Coquelin <mcoquelin.stm32@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Alexandre Torgue <alexandre.torgue@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/firmware/efi/stmm/mm_communication.h | 6 +++---
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> --- linux-next-20251107.orig/drivers/firmware/efi/stmm/mm_communication.h
> +++ linux-next-20251107/drivers/firmware/efi/stmm/mm_communication.h
> @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
>
> /**
> * struct efi_mm_communicate_header - Header used for SMM variable communication
> -
> + *
> * @header_guid: header use for disambiguation of content
> * @message_len: length of the message. Does not include the size of the
> * header
> @@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ struct efi_mm_communicate_header {
>
> /**
> * struct smm_variable_communicate_header - Used for SMM variable communication
> -
> + *
> * @function: function to call in Smm.
> * @ret_status: return status
> * @data: payload
> @@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ struct smm_variable_communicate_header {
> /**
> * struct smm_variable_access - Used to communicate with StMM by
> * SetVariable and GetVariable.
> -
> + *
> * @guid: vendor GUID
> * @data_size: size of EFI variable data
> * @name_size: size of EFI name
>