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Date:	Wed, 26 Jun 2013 14:23:25 +0200
From:	Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@...e-electrons.com>
To:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
CC:	davem@...emloft.net, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cfg80211/mac80211: fix doc compilation warnings

Hi Johannes,

Thank you for your review!

On 06/26/2013 09:37 AM, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-06-25 at 21:48 +0200, Michael Opdenacker wrote:
>> This patch fixes countless "No description found for parameter"
>> warnings generating documentation (running "make htmldocs"),
>> because the comments do not match the actual prototypes in the code.
>>
>> This issue didn't exist in 3.9. It may we worth fixing in 3.10
>> (if it's not too late).
> I think it's way late. Besides, all of this is already fixed in -next
> trees.
Cool! That's good news :)
>
>
>> @@ -4153,6 +4153,7 @@ void cfg80211_report_wowlan_wakeup(struct wireless_dev *wdev,
>>   * cfg80211_crit_proto_stopped() - indicate critical protocol stopped by driver.
>>   *
>>   * @wdev: the wireless device for which critical protocol is stopped.
>> + * @gfp: the type of memory to allocate (see kmalloc).
> This is also wrong, the allocation flags don't really change the *type*
> of memory, but only *how* it is allocated.
I agree, but I chose to stick to the description I found 5 times in
include/linux/slab.h. I shouldn't have followed bad examples...

I'll submit another patch ;)

Thanks again,

Michael.

-- 
Michael Opdenacker, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
http://free-electrons.com
+33 484 258 098

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