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

From: Jens Axboe <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2021 07:41:34 -0600

On 9/3/21 12:49 AM, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi Jens,
> 
> On Fri, 13 Aug 2021 07:54:51 -0600 Jens Axboe <[email-masked]> 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