The opening comment mark '/**' is used for highlighting the beginning of kernel-doc comments. The header for include/*/linux/phonet.h files 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. For e.g., running scripts/kernel-doc -none include/linux/phonet.h emits: warning: This comment starts with '/**', but isn't a kernel-doc comment. Refer Documentation/doc-guide/kernel-doc.rst * file phonet.h 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> --- include/linux/phonet.h | 2 +- include/uapi/linux/phonet.h | 2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/phonet.h b/include/linux/phonet.h index bc7d1e529efc..09ecb1f94c5e 100644 --- a/include/linux/phonet.h +++ b/include/linux/phonet.h @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ /* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only */ -/** +/* * file phonet.h * * Phonet sockets kernel interface diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/phonet.h b/include/uapi/linux/phonet.h index a2f6b37a5937..6b873c460994 100644 --- a/include/uapi/linux/phonet.h +++ b/include/uapi/linux/phonet.h @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ /* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note */ -/** +/* * file phonet.h * * Phonet sockets kernel interface -- 2.17.1
