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Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2023 16:04:35 -0800
From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
To: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
Cc: 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 jc_docs tree



On 12/19/23 16:02, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org> writes:
> 
>> On 12/18/23 06:18, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
>>> Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au> writes:
>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> After merging the jc_docs tree, today's linux-next build (htmldocs)
>>>> produced this warning:
>>>>
>>>> include/crypto/hash.h:248: warning: Excess struct member 'digestsize' description in 'shash_alg'
>>>>
>>>> and 636 new similar warnings :-(
>>>>
>>>> Exposed by commit
>>>>
>>>>   b77fdd6a48e6 ("scripts/kernel-doc: restore warning for Excess struct/union")
>>>>
>>>> I am not sure what we should do about this ... last Friday I only
>>>> got about 18 lines of warnings.
>>>
>>> The warnings were expected, of course.
>>>
>>> The alternatives are to fix the docs or to revert b77fdd6a48e6,
>>> pretending that all those kerneldoc errors don't actually exist.  The
>>> fixes should be pretty easy to do (and there's far less of them than it
>>> seems from the number of warnings).  I can't get there right away but if
>>> nobody beats me to it I'll try to toss some patches together.
>>
>> Hi Jon,
>>
>> Attempt at a little coordination:
>>
>> It looks like you are working on some net-related patches for this.
>> I am currently working on fs/ and kernel/ patches.
> 
> Oops...I did a few net ones now; they are all sent and I'm done for
> today.

No Oops needed.  You can have net. I'll stay away from it.

> Thanks for working on these too!
> 
> jon

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