[PATCH] ARM: OMAP1: fix incorrect kernel-doc comment syntax in file

Tony Lindgren tony at atomide.com
Wed Mar 31 07:07:12 BST 2021


* Aditya Srivastava <yashsri421 at gmail.com> [210330 23:54]:
> The opening comment mark '/**' is used for highlighting the beginning of
> kernel-doc comments.
> The header for arch/arm/mach-omap1/timer.c follows this syntax, but the
> content inside does not comply with kernel-doc.
> 
> This line was probably not meant for kernel-doc parsing, but is parsed
> due to the presence of kernel-doc like comment syntax(i.e, '/**'), which
> causes unexpected warning from kernel-doc:
> "warning: expecting prototype for OMAP1 Dual(). Prototype was for OMAP1610_GPTIMER1_BASE() instead"
> 
> Provide a simple fix by replacing this occurrence with general comment
> format, i.e. '/*', to prevent kernel-doc from parsing it.

Thanks applying into omap-for-v5.13/soc.

Tony



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