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

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Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2024 05:15:32 +0900
From: Krzysztof Wilczyński <kw@...ux.com>
To: Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@...nel.org>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
	Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
	Lorenzo Pieralisi <lpieralisi@...nel.org>,
	Philipp Stanner <pstanner@...hat.com>,
	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 pci tree

Hello,

[...]
> > After merging the pci tree, today's linux-next build (htmldocs) produced
> > this warning:
> > 
> > Documentation/driver-api/pci/pci:10: drivers/pci/devres.c:556: WARNING: Inline emphasis start-string without end-string.
> > 
> > Introduced by commit
> > 
> >   06fa2e1e9116 ("PCI: Deprecate pcim_iomap_table(), pcim_iomap_regions_request_all()")
> 
> I fixed by changing * to \* here:
> 
>   * void __iomem \*mappy = pcim_iomap(pdev, bar, length);

I wonder if the following hack would work too:

  void __iomem * mappy = pcim_iomap(pdev, bar, length);

Separate the asterisks from the name, so that the parser will no longer try
to make "mappy" bold.

Also, "mappy"... Philipp, this is so amazingly cringe. :)

    Krzysztof