The opening comment mark '/**' is used for highlighting the beginning of kernel-doc comments. The header for arch/arm/mach-sa1100/jornada720_ssp.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 these warnings from kernel-doc: "warning: Function parameter or member 'jornada_ssp_lock' not described in 'DEFINE_SPINLOCK'" "warning: expecting prototype for mac(). Prototype was for DEFINE_SPINLOCK() instead" Provide a simple fix by replacing this occurrence with general comment format, i.e. '/*', to prevent kernel-doc from parsing it. Signed-off-by: Aditya Srivastava <yashsri421@xxxxxxxxx> --- * Applies perfectly on next-20210326 arch/arm/mach-sa1100/jornada720_ssp.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-sa1100/jornada720_ssp.c b/arch/arm/mach-sa1100/jornada720_ssp.c index 1dbe98948ce3..148bcee3ee58 100644 --- a/arch/arm/mach-sa1100/jornada720_ssp.c +++ b/arch/arm/mach-sa1100/jornada720_ssp.c @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only -/** +/* * arch/arm/mac-sa1100/jornada720_ssp.c * * Copyright (C) 2006/2007 Kristoffer Ericson <Kristoffer.Ericson@xxxxxxxxx> -- 2.17.1
