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

From: Daniel Vetter
Date: Tue Jan 09 2024 - 10:32:59 EST


On Tue, 9 Jan 2024 at 16:29, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>
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> On 1/9/24 07:25, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> > On Tue, 9 Jan 2024 at 16:23, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> 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!
>
> This is already present:
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> Function documentation
> ----------------------
>
> The general format of a function and function-like macro kernel-doc comment is::
>
> /**
> * function_name() - Brief description of function.
> * @arg1: Describe the first argument.
> * @arg2: Describe the second argument.
> * One can provide multiple line descriptions
> * for arguments.
>
>
> but the way that you did it makes sense also.

Ah missed that it includes wording for function-like macros. On your
patch as-is:

Acked-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx>
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Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
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