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Subject: Re: [PATCH] NFC: nfcmrvl: fix kernel-doc syntax in file headers
To:     Aditya Srivastava <yashsri421@gmail.com>,
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From:   Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
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Date:   Sun, 23 May 2021 14:31:56 -0700
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On 5/23/21 2:09 PM, Aditya Srivastava wrote:
> The opening comment mark '/**' is used for highlighting the beginning of
> kernel-doc comments.
> The header for drivers/nfc/nfcmrvl 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.
> For e.g., running scripts/kernel-doc -none on drivers/nfc/nfcmrvl/spi.c
> causes warning:
> warning: expecting prototype for Marvell NFC(). Prototype was for SPI_WAIT_HANDSHAKE() instead
> 
> Provide a simple fix by replacing such occurrences 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>

Thanks.

> ---
>  drivers/nfc/nfcmrvl/fw_dnld.h | 2 +-
>  drivers/nfc/nfcmrvl/i2c.c     | 2 +-
>  drivers/nfc/nfcmrvl/nfcmrvl.h | 2 +-
>  drivers/nfc/nfcmrvl/spi.c     | 2 +-
>  drivers/nfc/nfcmrvl/uart.c    | 2 +-
>  drivers/nfc/nfcmrvl/usb.c     | 2 +-
>  6 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/nfc/nfcmrvl/fw_dnld.h b/drivers/nfc/nfcmrvl/fw_dnld.h
> index ee4a339c05fd..058ce77b3cbc 100644
> --- a/drivers/nfc/nfcmrvl/fw_dnld.h
> +++ b/drivers/nfc/nfcmrvl/fw_dnld.h
> @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
> -/**
> +/*
>   * Marvell NFC driver: Firmware downloader
>   *
>   * Copyright (C) 2015, Marvell International Ltd.
> diff --git a/drivers/nfc/nfcmrvl/i2c.c b/drivers/nfc/nfcmrvl/i2c.c
> index 18cd96284b77..c5420616b7bc 100644
> --- a/drivers/nfc/nfcmrvl/i2c.c
> +++ b/drivers/nfc/nfcmrvl/i2c.c
> @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
> -/**
> +/*
>   * Marvell NFC-over-I2C driver: I2C interface related functions
>   *
>   * Copyright (C) 2015, Marvell International Ltd.
> diff --git a/drivers/nfc/nfcmrvl/nfcmrvl.h b/drivers/nfc/nfcmrvl/nfcmrvl.h
> index de68ff45e49a..e84ee18c73ae 100644
> --- a/drivers/nfc/nfcmrvl/nfcmrvl.h
> +++ b/drivers/nfc/nfcmrvl/nfcmrvl.h
> @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
> -/**
> +/*
>   * Marvell NFC driver
>   *
>   * Copyright (C) 2014-2015, Marvell International Ltd.
> diff --git a/drivers/nfc/nfcmrvl/spi.c b/drivers/nfc/nfcmrvl/spi.c
> index 8e0ddb434770..dec0d3eb3648 100644
> --- a/drivers/nfc/nfcmrvl/spi.c
> +++ b/drivers/nfc/nfcmrvl/spi.c
> @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
> -/**
> +/*
>   * Marvell NFC-over-SPI driver: SPI interface related functions
>   *
>   * Copyright (C) 2015, Marvell International Ltd.
> diff --git a/drivers/nfc/nfcmrvl/uart.c b/drivers/nfc/nfcmrvl/uart.c
> index e5a622ce4b95..7194dd7ef0f1 100644
> --- a/drivers/nfc/nfcmrvl/uart.c
> +++ b/drivers/nfc/nfcmrvl/uart.c
> @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
> -/**
> +/*
>   * Marvell NFC-over-UART driver
>   *
>   * Copyright (C) 2015, Marvell International Ltd.
> diff --git a/drivers/nfc/nfcmrvl/usb.c b/drivers/nfc/nfcmrvl/usb.c
> index 888e298f610b..bcd563cb556c 100644
> --- a/drivers/nfc/nfcmrvl/usb.c
> +++ b/drivers/nfc/nfcmrvl/usb.c
> @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
> -/**
> +/*
>   * Marvell NFC-over-USB driver: USB interface related functions
>   *
>   * Copyright (C) 2014, Marvell International Ltd.
> 


-- 
~Randy