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From: Russell King - ARM Linux admin <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
To: peter@bikeshed.quignogs.org.uk
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>,
	Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>,
	Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] Reformat return value descriptions as ReST lists.
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2020 20:38:18 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200311203817.GT25745@shell.armlinux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200311192823.16213-2-peter@bikeshed.quignogs.org.uk>

On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 07:28:23PM +0000, peter@bikeshed.quignogs.org.uk wrote:
> From: Peter Lister <peter@bikeshed.quignogs.org.uk>
> 
> Added line breaks and blank lines to separate list items and escaped end-of-line
> colons.
> 
> This removes these warnings from doc build...
> 
> ./drivers/net/phy/sfp-bus.c:579: WARNING: Unexpected indentation.
> ./drivers/net/phy/sfp-bus.c:619: WARNING: Unexpected indentation.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Peter Lister <peter@bikeshed.quignogs.org.uk>
> ---
>  drivers/net/phy/sfp-bus.c | 16 ++++++++++++++--
>  1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/sfp-bus.c b/drivers/net/phy/sfp-bus.c
> index d949ea7b4f8c..df1c66df830f 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/phy/sfp-bus.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/phy/sfp-bus.c
> @@ -572,12 +572,18 @@ static void sfp_upstream_clear(struct sfp_bus *bus)
>   * the sfp_bus structure, incrementing its reference count.  This must
>   * be put via sfp_bus_put() when done.
>   *
> - * Returns: on success, a pointer to the sfp_bus structure,
> + * Returns\:
> + *
> + *          on success, a pointer to the sfp_bus structure,
>   *	    %NULL if no SFP is specified,
> + *
>   * 	    on failure, an error pointer value:
> + *
>   * 		corresponding to the errors detailed for
>   * 		fwnode_property_get_reference_args().
> + *
>   * 	        %-ENOMEM if we failed to allocate the bus.
> + *
>   *		an error from the upstream's connect_phy() method.

Is this really necessary?  This seems to be rather OTT, and makes the
comment way too big IMHO.

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-03-11 20:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-03-11 19:28 [PATCH 0/1] Convert text to ReST list and remove doc build warnings peter
2020-03-11 19:28 ` [PATCH 1/1] Reformat return value descriptions as ReST lists peter
2020-03-11 20:38   ` Russell King - ARM Linux admin [this message]
2020-03-11 22:21     ` Peter Lister
2020-03-11 22:25       ` Russell King - ARM Linux admin
2020-03-12  0:49   ` Matthew Wilcox

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