[PATCH net-next] net/core: Remove comment quote for __dev_queue_xmit()

From: Bagas Sanjaya
Date: Tue May 03 2022 - 03:30:42 EST


When merging net-next for linux-next tree, Stephen Rothwell reported
htmldocs warning:

Documentation/networking/kapi:92: net/core/dev.c:4101: WARNING: Missing matching underline for section title overline.

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I notice this method can also return errors from the queue disciplines,
including NET_XMIT_DROP, which is a positive value. So, errors can also

The warning is due to comment quote by BLG, which is separated by a dash
line above. While it is fine in the docbook days, current documentation
framework (Sphinx + kernel-doc) complains about it, so the documentation
for __dev_queue_xmit() is not generated.

The commit containing the quote is actually d29f749e252bcd ("net: Fix
build failure with 'make mandocs'."), which interacts with commit
c526fd8f9f4f21 ("net: inline dev_queue_xmit()") that Stephen reported.

Fix the warning by removing the quote and adjust the method
documentation accordingly.

Fixes: d29f749e252bcd ("net: Fix build failure with 'make mandocs'.")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-next/20220503073420.6d3f135d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@xxxxxxxxx>
---
net/core/dev.c | 19 +++++++------------
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index d127164771f222..b5273f820ca840 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -4098,18 +4098,13 @@ struct netdev_queue *netdev_core_pick_tx(struct net_device *dev,
* guarantee the frame will be transmitted as it may be dropped due
* to congestion or traffic shaping.
*
- * -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- * I notice this method can also return errors from the queue disciplines,
- * including NET_XMIT_DROP, which is a positive value. So, errors can also
- * be positive.
- *
- * Regardless of the return value, the skb is consumed, so it is currently
- * difficult to retry a send to this method. (You can bump the ref count
- * before sending to hold a reference for retry if you are careful.)
- *
- * When calling this method, interrupts MUST be enabled. This is because
- * the BH enable code must have IRQs enabled so that it will not deadlock.
- * --BLG
+ * This method can also return positive errno code from the queue
+ * disciplines (including NET_XMIT_DROP).
+ *
+ * Note that regardless of the return value, the skb is consumed
+ * anyway, so it is currently difficult to retry sending to this
+ * method.
+ *
*/
int __dev_queue_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *sb_dev)
{

base-commit: 0530a683fc858aa641d88ad83315ea53c27bce10
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