Use *foo makes the toolchain to think that this is an emphasis, causing those warnings: ./fs/inode.c:1609: WARNING: Inline emphasis start-string without end-string. ./fs/inode.c:1609: WARNING: Inline emphasis start-string without end-string. ./fs/inode.c:1615: WARNING: Inline emphasis start-string without end-string. So, use, instead, ``*foo``, in order to mark it as a literal block. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/inode.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/inode.c b/fs/inode.c index 93d9252a00ab..37226a9cfa4f 100644 --- a/fs/inode.c +++ b/fs/inode.c @@ -1606,14 +1606,14 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(iput); * @inode: inode owning the block number being requested * @block: pointer containing the block to find * - * Replaces the value in *block with the block number on the device holding + * Replaces the value in ``*block`` with the block number on the device holding * corresponding to the requested block number in the file. * That is, asked for block 4 of inode 1 the function will replace the - * 4 in *block, with disk block relative to the disk start that holds that + * 4 in ``*block``, with disk block relative to the disk start that holds that * block of the file. * * Returns -EINVAL in case of error, 0 otherwise. If mapping falls into a - * hole, returns 0 and *block is also set to 0. + * hole, returns 0 and ``*block`` is also set to 0. */ int bmap(struct inode *inode, sector_t *block) { -- 2.25.2