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

From: Greg KH
Date: Mon Feb 20 2023 - 02:32:08 EST


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.