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

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Message-ID: <ed7a3800674cf5bc94f4d8119f6f7c311f9e7eaa.camel@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2024 08:59:13 +0200
From: Philipp Stanner <pstanner@...hat.com>
To: Krzysztof Wilczyński <kw@...ux.com>, Bjorn Helgaas
	 <helgaas@...nel.org>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>, Bjorn Helgaas
 <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,  Lorenzo Pieralisi <lpieralisi@...nel.org>, 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

On Tue, 2024-07-02 at 05:15 +0900, Krzysztof Wilczyński wrote:
> 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. :)

The kernel community has a reputation to defend – that of not being
boring corporate people :]

P.

> 
>     Krzysztof
>