The opening comment mark '/**' is used for highlighting the beginning of kernel-doc comments. The header for samples/bpf/ibumad_kern.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 warnings from kernel-doc: warning: This comment starts with '/**', but isn't a kernel-doc comment. Refer Documentation/doc-guide/kernel-doc.rst * ibumad BPF sample kernel side 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> --- samples/bpf/ibumad_kern.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/samples/bpf/ibumad_kern.c b/samples/bpf/ibumad_kern.c index 26dcd4dde946..9b193231024a 100644 --- a/samples/bpf/ibumad_kern.c +++ b/samples/bpf/ibumad_kern.c @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 OR Linux-OpenIB -/** +/* * ibumad BPF sample kernel side * * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or -- 2.17.1
