Re: linux-next: build warning after merge of the block tree

From: Jens Axboe
Date: Fri Sep 03 2021 - 09:41:40 EST


On 9/3/21 12:49 AM, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi Jens,
>
> On Fri, 13 Aug 2021 07:54:51 -0600 Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> On 8/13/21 3:41 AM, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> After merging the block tree, today's linux-next build (htmldocs)
>>> produced this warning:
>>>
>>> block/bio.c:1689: warning: Function parameter or member 'nr_vecs' not described in 'bio_alloc_kiocb'
>>>
>>> Introduced by commit
>>>
>>> 1cbbd31c4ada ("bio: add allocation cache abstraction")
>>
>> Thanks, fixed up.
>
> Not really :-( I am now also getting this (the above has moved to line
> 1704 as well):
>
> block/bio.c:1704: warning: Excess function parameter 'nr_iovecs' description in 'bio_alloc_kiocb'

This should fix that one up:

diff --git a/block/bio.c b/block/bio.c
index e16849f46b0e..5df3dd282e40 100644
--- a/block/bio.c
+++ b/block/bio.c
@@ -1688,7 +1688,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(bioset_init_from_src);
/**
* bio_alloc_kiocb - Allocate a bio from bio_set based on kiocb
* @kiocb: kiocb describing the IO
- * @nr_iovecs: number of iovecs to pre-allocate
+ * @nr_vecs: number of iovecs to pre-allocate
* @bs: bio_set to allocate from
*
* Description:

--
Jens Axboe