linux-kernel - Re: kernel/cgroup/debug.c:1: warning: no structured comments found

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Date:   Mon, 20 Nov 2023 20:11:07 -0800
From:   Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
To:     Waiman Long <longman@...hat.com>, kernel test robot <lkp@...el.com>
Cc:     oe-kbuild-all@...ts.linux.dev, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: kernel/cgroup/debug.c:1: warning: no structured comments found

Hi,

On 11/20/23 19:04, Waiman Long wrote:
> 
> On 11/20/23 21:32, kernel test robot wrote:
>> tree:   https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git master
>> head:   98b1cc82c4affc16f5598d4fa14b1858671b2263
>> commit: a28f8f5e995fe5964ae304444913536058f26e37 cgroup: Move debug cgroup to its own file
>> date:   6 years ago
>> config: i386-buildonly-randconfig-005-20231120 (https://download.01.org/0day-ci/archive/20231121/202311211005.Qwt1FHrO-lkp@intel.com/config)
>> compiler: gcc-7 (Ubuntu 7.5.0-6ubuntu2) 7.5.0
>> reproduce (this is a W=1 build): (https://download.01.org/0day-ci/archive/20231121/202311211005.Qwt1FHrO-lkp@intel.com/reproduce)
>>
>> If you fix the issue in a separate patch/commit (i.e. not just a new version of
>> the same patch/commit), kindly add following tags
>> | Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@...el.com>
>> | Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202311211005.Qwt1FHrO-lkp@intel.com/
>>
>> All warnings (new ones prefixed by >>):
>>
>>>> kernel/cgroup/debug.c:1: warning: no structured comments found
>>
>> vim +1 kernel/cgroup/debug.c
>>
>>     > 1    #include <linux/ctype.h>
>>       2    #include <linux/mm.h>
>>       3    #include <linux/slab.h>
>>       4   
> 
> Yes, there is no function in this file with structure comments. This debug controller is used for debugging only and is not supposed to be used on production systems anyway. Its interface is unstable and so I don't see a need to properly document its interface.
> 
> I will leave this file as it is for now.

Yes :)


This warning usually happens when some file is referenced in the
Documentation/ tree while building 'make htmldocs', e.g.

But this source file is not used in Documentation/ at all,
so this report seems to have some kind of a problem.
Also, I could not reproduce the warning.

-- 
~Randy