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. Signed-off-by: Aditya Srivastava <yashsri421@xxxxxxxxx> --- * Applies perfectly on next-20210326 arch/arm/mach-omap1/timer.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-omap1/timer.c b/arch/arm/mach-omap1/timer.c index 97fc2096b970..0411d5508d63 100644 --- a/arch/arm/mach-omap1/timer.c +++ b/arch/arm/mach-omap1/timer.c @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -/** +/* * OMAP1 Dual-Mode Timers - platform device registration * * Contains first level initialization routines which internally -- 2.17.1