Re: linux-next: build warning after merge of the driver-core tree

[Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com>]

On 2023/2/20 17:49, Bagas Sanjaya wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 20, 2023 at 08:31:58AM +0100, Greg KH wrote:
>> On Mon, Feb 20, 2023 at 03:26:41PM +0800, Qi Zheng wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On 2023/2/20 13:31, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> After merging the driver-core tree, today's linux-next build
>>>> (htmldocs) produced this warning:
>>>>
>>>> Documentation/filesystems/api-summary:146: fs/debugfs/inode.c:804: WARNING: Inline literal start-string without end-string.
>>>>
>>>> Introduced by commit
>>>>
>>>>     d3002468cb5d ("debugfs: update comment of debugfs_rename()")
>>>
>>> This is just a comment modification. Didn't see where my modification
>>> caused this WARNING. :(
>>
>> Yeah, I don't understand either, here's the diff, what's wrong with it?
>>
>>
>> --- a/fs/debugfs/inode.c
>> +++ b/fs/debugfs/inode.c
>> @@ -802,8 +802,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(debugfs_lookup_and_remove);
>>    * exist for rename to succeed.
>>    *
>>    * This function will return a pointer to old_dentry (which is updated to
>> - * reflect renaming) if it succeeds. If an error occurs, %NULL will be
>> - * returned.
>> + * reflect renaming) if it succeeds. If an error occurs, %ERR_PTR(-ERROR)
>> + * will be returned.
>>    *
>>    * If debugfs is not enabled in the kernel, the value -%ENODEV will be
>>    * returned.
> 
> Hi Greg and Qi,
> 
> The simple fix is to drop the percent (which is an inline code variant):
> 
> ---- >8 ----
> diff --git a/fs/debugfs/inode.c b/fs/debugfs/inode.c
> index 58a35afb7c5d89..a7a6a0821605a8 100644
> --- a/fs/debugfs/inode.c
> +++ b/fs/debugfs/inode.c
> @@ -802,7 +802,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(debugfs_lookup_and_remove);
>    * exist for rename to succeed.
>    *
>    * This function will return a pointer to old_dentry (which is updated to
> - * reflect renaming) if it succeeds. If an error occurs, %ERR_PTR(-ERROR)
> + * reflect renaming) if it succeeds. If an error occurs, ERR_PTR(-ERROR)
>    * will be returned.
>    *
>    * If debugfs is not enabled in the kernel, the value -%ENODEV will be

LGTM, do I need to resend the patch with this fix?

> 
> Thanks.
> 

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Thanks,
Qi