linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: build warning after merge of the usb tree

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Date:   Fri, 4 Jun 2021 15:37:35 +0200
From:   Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:     Rajat Jain <rajatja@...gle.com>
Cc:     Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Next Mailing List <linux-next@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: linux-next: build warning after merge of the usb tree

On Tue, Jun 01, 2021 at 10:39:42AM -0700, Rajat Jain wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jun 1, 2021 at 1:30 AM Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au> wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > After merging the usb tree, today's linux-next build (htmldocs) produced
> > this warning:
> >
> > Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-removable:2: WARNING: Unexpected indentation.
> > Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-removable:2: WARNING: Block quote ends without a blank line; unexpected unindent.
> 
> I'd be happy to send a patch to fix this, but I didn't really
> understand what needs to be done.
> 
> Here is the relevant documentation update in the patch:
> 
> +What:          /sys/devices/.../removable
> +Date:          May 2021
> +Contact:       Rajat Jain <rajatxjain@...il.com>
> +Description:
> +               Information about whether a given device can be removed from the
> +               platform by the user. This is determined by its subsystem in a
> +               bus / platform-specific way. This attribute is only present for
> +               devices that can support determining such information:
> +
> +               "removable": device can be removed from the platform by the user
> +               "fixed":     device is fixed to the platform / cannot be removed
> +                            by the user.
> +               "unknown":   The information is unavailable / cannot be deduced.
> +
> +               Currently this is only supported by USB (which infers the
> +               information from a combination of hub descriptor bits and
> +               platform-specific data such as ACPI).
> 
> I'd be happy to send a patch if you can point me what needs to be done
> (or let Stephen / Greg / some one else do it if it is easier to just
> do it instead of guiding me).

I do not know what the "right" thing to do here is, sorry.  Maybe one of
the kerneldoc people know?

greg k-h