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

From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2024 09:55:09 +0100

Em Fri, 23 Feb 2024 07:35:54 +0100
Christoph Hellwig <[email-masked]> escreveu:

> On Fri, Feb 23, 2024 at 03:36:36PM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > After merging the xfs tree, today's linux-next build (htmldocs) produced
> > this warning:
> > 
> > Documentation/core-api/mm-api:130: mm/shmem.c:2155: WARNING: Inline emphasis start-string without end-string.
> > Documentation/core-api/mm-api:130: mm/shmem.c:2156: WARNING: Inline emphasis start-string without end-string.  
> 
> Thanks for the headsup.  Looks like kernel-doc doesn't like the
> pointer dereferene * operator.  Any good idea how to write this instead?

Asterisks there are used to do *italic* or **bold**. To have an
asterisk as-is, it needs to be escaped. This would work:

	\*foo

but it is very weird for the ones reading the text file. So, what
we do instead for pointers is to escape the entire declaration, like:

	``*inode``
	``struct inode *inode``

I hope that helps.

Thanks,
Mauro