On 27.09.2020 17:22, Tony Asleson wrote:
Function callback and function to be used to write a persistent
durable name to the supplied character buffer. This will be used to add
structured key-value data to log messages for hardware related errors
which allows end users to correlate message and specific hardware.
Signed-off-by: Tony Asleson <tasleson@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/base/core.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
include/linux/device.h | 4 ++++
2 files changed, 28 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/base/core.c b/drivers/base/core.c
index 05d414e9e8a4..88696ade8bfc 100644
--- a/drivers/base/core.c
+++ b/drivers/base/core.c
@@ -2489,6 +2489,30 @@ int dev_set_name(struct device *dev, const char
*fmt, ...)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(dev_set_name);
+/**
+ * dev_durable_name - Write "DURABLE_NAME"=<durable name> in buffer
+ * @dev: device
+ * @buffer: character buffer to write results
+ * @len: length of buffer
+ * @return: Number of bytes written to buffer
This is not how the kernel-doc commenta describe the function result,
IIRC...
I did my compile with `make W=1` and there isn't any warnings/error
with source documentation, but the documentation does indeed outline a
IIRC, you only get the warnings when you try to build the kernel-docs.
different syntax. It's interesting how common the @return syntax is in
the existing code base.
FWIW, I'm seeing @return: for the 1st time in my Linux tenure (since 2004).
I'll re-work the function documentation return.
OK, thanks. :-)
Thanks
MBR, Sergei