linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ALSA: asihpi: fix comment syntax in file headers

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Message-ID: <s5hwnu4j03f.wl-tiwai@suse.de>
Date:   Thu, 18 Mar 2021 10:13:40 +0100
From:   Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
To:     Aditya Srivastava <yashsri421@...il.com>
Cc:     alsa-devel@...a-project.org, lukas.bulwahn@...il.com,
        linux-kernel-mentees@...ts.linuxfoundation.org, perex@...ex.cz,
        tiwai@...e.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ALSA: asihpi: fix comment syntax in file headers

On Wed, 17 Mar 2021 21:21:44 +0100,
Aditya Srivastava wrote:
> 
> The opening comment mark '/**' is used for highlighting the beginning of
> kernel-doc comments.
> There are files in sound/pci/asihpi which follow this syntax in their file
> headers, i.e. start with '/**' like comments, which causes unexpected
> warnings from kernel-doc.
> 
> E.g., running scripts/kernel-doc -none on sound/pci/asihpi/hpidspcd.h
> causes this warning:
> "warning: Cannot understand
>  on line 4 - I thought it was a doc line"
> 
> Provide a simple fix by replacing the kernel-doc like comment syntax with
> general format, i.e. "/*", to prevent kernel-doc from parsing it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Aditya Srivastava <yashsri421@...il.com>

Applied now.  Thanks.


Takashi