Re: [PATCH 1/1] Reformat return value descriptions as ReST lists.

From: Russell King - ARM Linux admin
Date: Wed Mar 11 2020 - 16:38:30 EST


On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 07:28:23PM +0000, peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> From: Peter Lister <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> 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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