Hi Aditya, [FYI, it's a private test report for your RFC patch.] [auto build test WARNING on lwn/docs-next] [also build test WARNING on linus/master v5.12-rc2 next-20210309] [If your patch is applied to the wrong git tree, kindly drop us a note. And when submitting patch, we suggest to use '--base' as documented in https://git-scm.com/docs/git-format-patch] url: https://github.com/0day-ci/linux/commits/Aditya-Srivastava/scripts-kernel-doc-avoid-warnings-due-to-initial-commented-lines-in-file/20210309-205528 base: git://git.lwn.net/linux-2.6 docs-next config: nios2-randconfig-r025-20210308 (attached as .config) compiler: nios2-linux-gcc (GCC) 9.3.0 reproduce (this is a W=1 build): wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/intel/lkp-tests/master/sbin/make.cross -O ~/bin/make.cross chmod +x ~/bin/make.cross # https://github.com/0day-ci/linux/commit/368834285bb65afc6e6810e4127df1ed18bb60b0 git remote add linux-review https://github.com/0day-ci/linux git fetch --no-tags linux-review Aditya-Srivastava/scripts-kernel-doc-avoid-warnings-due-to-initial-commented-lines-in-file/20210309-205528 git checkout 368834285bb65afc6e6810e4127df1ed18bb60b0 # save the attached .config to linux build tree COMPILER_INSTALL_PATH=$HOME/0day COMPILER=gcc-9.3.0 make.cross ARCH=nios2 If you fix the issue, kindly add following tag as appropriate Reported-by: kernel test robot All warnings (new ones prefixed by >>): >> fs/ntfs/dir.c:21: warning: wrong kernel-doc identifier on line: * The little endian Unicode string $I30 as a global constant. fs/ntfs/dir.c:1489: warning: Function parameter or member 'start' not described in 'ntfs_dir_fsync' fs/ntfs/dir.c:1489: warning: Function parameter or member 'end' not described in 'ntfs_dir_fsync' fs/ntfs/dir.c:1489: warning: Excess function parameter 'dentry' description in 'ntfs_dir_fsync' vim +21 fs/ntfs/dir.c ^1da177e4c3f41 Linus Torvalds 2005-04-16 19 ^1da177e4c3f41 Linus Torvalds 2005-04-16 20 /** ^1da177e4c3f41 Linus Torvalds 2005-04-16 @21 * The little endian Unicode string $I30 as a global constant. ^1da177e4c3f41 Linus Torvalds 2005-04-16 22 */ 63cd8854268722 Harvey Harrison 2009-03-31 23 ntfschar I30[5] = { cpu_to_le16('$'), cpu_to_le16('I'), 63cd8854268722 Harvey Harrison 2009-03-31 24 cpu_to_le16('3'), cpu_to_le16('0'), 0 }; ^1da177e4c3f41 Linus Torvalds 2005-04-16 25 --- 0-DAY CI Kernel Test Service, Intel Corporation https://lists.01.org/hyperkitty/list/kbuild-all(a)lists.01.org