linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: build warnings after merge of the sysctl tree

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Message-ID: <6npuxslv23xkesbloyx73emrsertjuwn65ezihftfmy2ypw6nx@5oa5q26wvya7>
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2026 11:19:51 +0100
From: Joel Granados <joel.granados@...nel.org>
To: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@...nel.org>, Kees Cook <kees@...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 warnings after merge of the sysctl tree

On Tue, Jan 06, 2026 at 09:21:52AM +0100, Joel Granados wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 06, 2026 at 11:54:32AM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > After merging the sysctl tree, today's linux-next build (htmldocs)
> > produced these warnings:
> > 
> > WARNING: kernel/sysctl.c:475 function parameter 'u_ptr' not described in 'proc_int_k2u_conv_kop'
> > WARNING: kernel/sysctl.c:475 function parameter 'k_ptr' not described in 'proc_int_k2u_conv_kop'
> > WARNING: kernel/sysctl.c:475 function parameter 'negp' not described in 'proc_int_k2u_conv_kop'
> > WARNING: kernel/sysctl.c:475 function parameter 'k_ptr_op' not described in 'proc_int_k2u_conv_kop'
> > WARNING: kernel/sysctl.c:502 function parameter 'u_ptr' not described in 'proc_int_u2k_conv_uop'
> > WARNING: kernel/sysctl.c:502 function parameter 'k_ptr' not described in 'proc_int_u2k_conv_uop'
> > WARNING: kernel/sysctl.c:502 function parameter 'negp' not described in 'proc_int_u2k_conv_uop'
> > WARNING: kernel/sysctl.c:502 function parameter 'u_ptr_op' not described in 'proc_int_u2k_conv_uop'
> > 
> > Introduced by commit
> > 
> >   936d17ea83dc ("sysctl: Replace unidirectional INT converter macros with functions")
> Oops, Thought I fixed those already. Let me remove those from the branch
Indeed, I had fixed it on working branch [1] which is not in sysctl-next :(.

Will update sysctl-next. I wont bother re-sending to the list as these
are only documentation modifications. I'll run my changes through the
scripts/kernel-doc check to make sure that they are no longer there.

Thx again 

Best

[1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/joel.granados/linux.git/commit/?h=jag/dovec_consolidate&id=d49958cf1ef4a4c967cdfab48de1c7ee689227fd



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Joel Granados

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