Re: linux-next: build warning for a long time

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On Fri, Oct 11, 2024 at 05:24:42PM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> From before the git era, an htmldocs build (if we had such a thing back
> then) would complain like this:
> 
> Documentation/driver-api/usb/usb:164: drivers/usb/core/message.c:968: WARNING: Duplicate C declaration, also defined at driver-api/usb/gadget:804.
> Declaration is '.. c:function:: int usb_string (struct usb_device *dev, int index, char *buf, size_t size)'.
> 
> I assume it is confused because we have documented both a function and a
> data type called "usb_string".  The former in drivers/usb/core/message.c
> and the latter in include/linux/usb/gadget.h.
> 
> There are about 46 references to the function and 105 to the struct.
> We could rename the function to usb_string_utf8 ...

But usb strings are not in utf8 format :)

As C can handle this just fine, odds are sphinx should also be able to
handle this?

thanks,

greg k-h




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