Re: [PATCH v2] drm/vram-helper: fix kernel-doc warnings

From: Daniel Vetter
Date: Tue Jan 09 2024 - 10:26:19 EST


On Tue, 9 Jan 2024 at 16:23, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On 1/9/24 05:42, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> > On Tue, 9 Jan 2024 at 13:59, Daniel Vetter <daniel@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Mon, Jan 08, 2024 at 01:10:12PM -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> >>> Hi Thomas,
> >>>
> >>> On 1/8/24 00:57, Thomas Zimmermann wrote:
> >>>> Hi,
> >>>>
> >>>> thanks for the fix.
> >>>>
> >>>> Am 06.01.24 um 04:29 schrieb Randy Dunlap:
> >>>>> Remove the @funcs entry from struct drm_vram_mm to quieten the kernel-doc
> >>>>> warning.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Use the "define" kernel-doc keyword and an '\' line continuation
> >>>>> to fix another kernel-doc warning.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> drm_gem_vram_helper.h:129: warning: missing initial short description on line:
> >>>>> * DRM_GEM_VRAM_PLANE_HELPER_FUNCS -
> >>>>> drm_gem_vram_helper.h:185: warning: Excess struct member 'funcs' description in 'drm_vram_mm'
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>>>> Cc: David Airlie <airlied@xxxxxxxxx>
> >>>>> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel@xxxxxxxx>
> >>>>> Cc: dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >>>>> Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>>>> Cc: Maxime Ripard <mripard@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >>>>> Cc: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@xxxxxxx>
> >>>>> ---
> >>>>> v2: Add commit description
> >>>>>
> >>>>> base-commit: 610a9b8f49fbcf1100716370d3b5f6f884a2835a
> >>>>>
> >>>>> include/drm/drm_gem_vram_helper.h | 3 +--
> >>>>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >>>>>
> >>>>> diff -- a/include/drm/drm_gem_vram_helper.h b/include/drm/drm_gem_vram_helper.h
> >>>>> --- a/include/drm/drm_gem_vram_helper.h
> >>>>> +++ b/include/drm/drm_gem_vram_helper.h
> >>>>> @@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ drm_gem_vram_plane_helper_cleanup_fb(str
> >>>>> struct drm_plane_state *old_state);
> >>>>> /**
> >>>>> - * DRM_GEM_VRAM_PLANE_HELPER_FUNCS -
> >>>>> + * define DRM_GEM_VRAM_PLANE_HELPER_FUNCS - \
> >>>>
> >>>> Did something change wrt. doc syntax? I think this used to work without warnings. About this 'define': we don't use is in another docs. Can we leave it out here or is this the new syntax?
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> There are no doc syntax changes that I know of. This is not
> >>> new syntax. It has been around since 2014:
> >>> cbb4d3e6510b ("scripts/kernel-doc: handle object-like macros")
> >>
> >> I had no idea this exists, thanks a lot for this TIL :-)
> >>
> >> I guess the issue here is that this exists, yay, but it's not documented
> >> with the other here:
> >>
> >> https://dri.freedesktop.org/docs/drm/doc-guide/kernel-doc.html#structure-union-and-enumeration-documentation
> >>
> >> I guess a patch to kernel-doc.rst would be great. Adding some kernel-doc
> >> folks.
> >
> > Ok I went ahead and typed that patch (just we don't waste effort),
> > just waiting for the sphinx build to finish to make sure it looks nice
> > before I send out the patch.
> > -Sima
>
> I sent one a few days ago:
>
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240107012400.32587-1-rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/

Could you please also add documentation for function-like macros,
since that's also missing? With that acked-by: me.

Cheers!
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Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
http://blog.ffwll.ch