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SubjectRe: drivers/vfio/vfio.c:293: warning: expecting prototype for Container objects(). Prototype was for vfio_container_get() instead
On Wed, 10 Nov 2021 15:19:40 -0800
Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> wrote:

> On 11/10/21 8:42 AM, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 10, 2021 at 11:12:39PM +0800, kernel test robot wrote:
> >> Hi Jason,
> >>
> >> FYI, the error/warning still remains.
> >
> > This is just a long standing kdoc misuse.
> >
> > vfio is not W=1 kdoc clean.
> >
> > Until someone takes a project to fix this comprehensively there is not
> > much point in reporting new complaints related the existing mis-use..
>
> Hi,
>
> Can we just remove all misused "/**" comments in vfio.c until
> someone cares enough to use proper kernel-doc there?
>
> ---
> From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
> Subject: [PATCH] vfio/vfio: remove all kernel-doc notation
>
> vfio.c abuses (misuses) "/**", which indicates the beginning of
> kernel-doc notation in the kernel tree. This causes a bunch of
> kernel-doc complaints about this source file, so quieten all of
> them by changing all "/**" to "/*".
>
> vfio.c:236: warning: This comment starts with '/**', but isn't a kernel-doc comment. Refer Documentation/doc-guide/kernel-doc.rst
> * IOMMU driver registration
> vfio.c:236: warning: missing initial short description on line:
> * IOMMU driver registration
> vfio.c:295: warning: expecting prototype for Container objects(). Prototype was for vfio_container_get() instead
> vfio.c:317: warning: expecting prototype for Group objects(). Prototype was for __vfio_group_get_from_iommu() instead
> vfio.c:496: warning: Function parameter or member 'device' not described in 'vfio_device_put'
> vfio.c:496: warning: expecting prototype for Device objects(). Prototype was for vfio_device_put() instead
> vfio.c:599: warning: This comment starts with '/**', but isn't a kernel-doc comment. Refer Documentation/doc-guide/kernel-doc.rst
> * Async device support
> vfio.c:599: warning: missing initial short description on line:
> * Async device support
> vfio.c:693: warning: This comment starts with '/**', but isn't a kernel-doc comment. Refer Documentation/doc-guide/kernel-doc.rst
> * VFIO driver API
> vfio.c:693: warning: missing initial short description on line:
> * VFIO driver API
> vfio.c:835: warning: This comment starts with '/**', but isn't a kernel-doc comment. Refer Documentation/doc-guide/kernel-doc.rst
> * Get a reference to the vfio_device for a device. Even if the
> vfio.c:835: warning: missing initial short description on line:
> * Get a reference to the vfio_device for a device. Even if the
> vfio.c:969: warning: This comment starts with '/**', but isn't a kernel-doc comment. Refer Documentation/doc-guide/kernel-doc.rst
> * VFIO base fd, /dev/vfio/vfio
> vfio.c:969: warning: missing initial short description on line:
> * VFIO base fd, /dev/vfio/vfio
> vfio.c:1187: warning: This comment starts with '/**', but isn't a kernel-doc comment. Refer Documentation/doc-guide/kernel-doc.rst
> * VFIO Group fd, /dev/vfio/$GROUP
> vfio.c:1187: warning: missing initial short description on line:
> * VFIO Group fd, /dev/vfio/$GROUP
> vfio.c:1540: warning: This comment starts with '/**', but isn't a kernel-doc comment. Refer Documentation/doc-guide/kernel-doc.rst
> * VFIO Device fd
> vfio.c:1540: warning: missing initial short description on line:
> * VFIO Device fd
> vfio.c:1615: warning: This comment starts with '/**', but isn't a kernel-doc comment. Refer Documentation/doc-guide/kernel-doc.rst
> * External user API, exported by symbols to be linked dynamically.
> vfio.c:1615: warning: missing initial short description on line:
> * External user API, exported by symbols to be linked dynamically.
> vfio.c:1663: warning: This comment starts with '/**', but isn't a kernel-doc comment. Refer Documentation/doc-guide/kernel-doc.rst
> * External user API, exported by symbols to be linked dynamically.
> vfio.c:1663: warning: missing initial short description on line:
> * External user API, exported by symbols to be linked dynamically.
> vfio.c:1742: warning: Function parameter or member 'caps' not described in 'vfio_info_cap_add'
> vfio.c:1742: warning: Function parameter or member 'size' not described in 'vfio_info_cap_add'
> vfio.c:1742: warning: Function parameter or member 'id' not described in 'vfio_info_cap_add'
> vfio.c:1742: warning: Function parameter or member 'version' not described in 'vfio_info_cap_add'
> vfio.c:1742: warning: expecting prototype for Sub(). Prototype was for vfio_info_cap_add() instead
> vfio.c:2276: warning: This comment starts with '/**', but isn't a kernel-doc comment. Refer Documentation/doc-guide/kernel-doc.rst
> * Module/class support
> vfio.c:2276: warning: missing initial short description on line:
> * Module/class support
>
> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
> Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
> Cc: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
> Cc: Eric Auger <eric.auger@redhat.com>
> Cc: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>
> Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
> ---
> drivers/vfio/vfio.c | 28 ++++++++++++++--------------
> 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

These were never intended to be kernel-doc, thanks for the cleanup.
I've scraped this into my for-linus branch with Jason and Connie's acks
for v5.16. Thanks,

Alex

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