The opening comment mark '/**' is used for highlighting the beginning of kernel-doc comments. The header for drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/encx24j600 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 drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/encx24j600_hw.h emits: warning: expecting prototype for h(). Prototype was for _ENCX24J600_HW_H() instead Provide a simple fix by replacing such occurrences with general comment format, i.e. '/*', to prevent kernel-doc from parsing it. Signed-off-by: Aditya Srivastava <yashsri421@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/encx24j600.c | 2 +- drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/encx24j600_hw.h | 2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/encx24j600.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/encx24j600.c index 3658c4ae3c37..ee921a99e439 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/encx24j600.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/encx24j600.c @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later -/** +/* * Microchip ENCX24J600 ethernet driver * * Copyright (C) 2015 Gridpoint diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/encx24j600_hw.h b/drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/encx24j600_hw.h index f604a260ede7..fac61a8fbd02 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/encx24j600_hw.h +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/encx24j600_hw.h @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ /* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */ -/** +/* * encx24j600_hw.h: Register definitions * */ -- 2.17.1
