linux-kernel - linux-next: build warning in Linus' tree

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Message-ID: <20251106143251.43f92fc7@canb.auug.org.au>
Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2025 14:32:51 +1100
From: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
To: Vadim Fedorenko <vadim.fedorenko@...ux.dev>
Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Linux Kernel Mailing List
 <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Linux Next Mailing List
 <linux-next@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: linux-next: build warning in Linus' tree

Hi all,

In Linus' tree today's linux-next build (htmldocs) produced this warning:

WARNING: /home/sfr/kernels/next/next/include/linux/ethtool.h:495 This comment starts with '/**', but isn't a kernel-doc comment. Refer Documentation/doc-guide/kernel-doc.rst
 * IEEE 802.3ck/df defines 16 bins for FEC histogram plus one more for

Introduced by commit

  cc2f08129925 ("ethtool: add FEC bins histogram report")

"make htmldocs" was not reporting all the warnings for some time.
That has now been fixed and this warning showed up.

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell

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