On 03/04/13 13:29, Nishanth Menon wrote:
> Hi,
> While playing with 3.9-rc1 tag, I found the following interesting:
> Warning(lib/crc32.c:143): No description found for parameter 'tab)[256]'
> Code in question is as follows:
>
> /**
> * crc32_le() - Calculate bitwise little-endian Ethernet AUTODIN II CRC32
> * @crc: seed value for computation. ~0 for Ethernet, sometimes 0 for
> * other uses, or the previous crc32 value if computing incrementally.
> * @p: pointer to buffer over which CRC is run
> * @len: length of buffer @p
> */
> static inline u32 __pure crc32_le_generic(u32 crc, unsigned char const *p,
> size_t len, const u32 (*tab)[256],
> u32 polynomial)
> Ignore the polynomial for the moment, the fix would probably be to add:
> @tab: something
>
> but it still does not work.
> With a bit of tracing added[1], it looks like this:
> Trace begun at scripts/kernel-doc line 1976
> main::push_parameter(undef, 'const u32 ( *', 'lib/crc32.c') called at scripts/kernel-doc line 1911
> main::create_parameterlist('u32 crc, unsigned char const *p, ^I^I^I^I^I size_t len, const u32 (*tab)[256], ^I^I^I^I^I u32 polynomial', ',', 'lib/crc32.c') called at scripts/kernel-doc line 2128
> main::dump_function('static inline u32 __pure crc32_le_generic(u32 crc, unsigned char const *p, ^I^I^I^I^I size_t len, const u32 (*tab)[256], ^I^I^I^I^I u32 polynomial) ', 'lib/crc32.c') called at scripts/kernel-doc line 2261
> main::process_state3_function('{^J', 'lib/crc32.c') called at scripts/kernel-doc line 2489
> main::process_file('{^J') called at scripts/kernel-doc line 2597
> Warning(lib/crc32.c:143): No description found for parameter 'tab)[256]'
>
> So far, at the point of calling create_parameterlist we have args
> properly identified
> args=u32 crc, unsigned char const *p, size_t len, const u32 (*tab)[256], u32 polynomial
> at the point of push_parameter, we see the problem with a print patch as
> in [2]:
> 1=* type=const u32 ( 2=tab)[256]
>
> It looks like a cleanup of parameter problem, but I dont seem to
> immediately see where exactly might be a good place to do it.
>
> [1] http://pastebin.com/puGBafm6
> [2] http://pastebin.com/c5ijQGtW
>
> Just for the background: The warning seems to have been introduced by:
> commit 46c5801e (crc32: bolt on crc32c)
Yes, I have been aware of it for quite some time but I haven't
made a patch for it yet. If you come up with a patch, that would be great.
thanks,
--
~Randy
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