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Subject: Re: [PATCH] usb: dwc3: st: fix incorrect kernel-doc comment syntax in
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To:     Aditya Srivastava <yashsri421@gmail.com>,
        patrice.chotard@foss.st.com
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References: <20210329132014.24304-1-yashsri421@gmail.com>
From:   Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
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Date:   Mon, 29 Mar 2021 11:15:50 -0700
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On 3/29/21 6:20 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-st.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 CLKRST_CTRL() 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@gmail.com>

Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>

> ---
> * Applies perfectly on next-20210326
> 
>  drivers/usb/dwc3/dwc3-st.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/usb/dwc3/dwc3-st.c b/drivers/usb/dwc3/dwc3-st.c
> index b06b7092b1a2..166b5bde45cb 100644
> --- a/drivers/usb/dwc3/dwc3-st.c
> +++ b/drivers/usb/dwc3/dwc3-st.c
> @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
>  // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+
> -/**
> +/*
>   * dwc3-st.c Support for dwc3 platform devices on ST Microelectronics platforms
>   *
>   * This is a small driver for the dwc3 to provide the glue logic
> 


-- 
~Randy