The patch below was submitted to be applied to the 4.14-stable tree.
I fail to see how this patch meets the stable kernel rules as found at Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst.
I could be totally wrong, and if so, please respond to stable@vger.kernel.org and let me know why this patch should be applied. Otherwise, it is now dropped from my patch queues, never to be seen again.
thanks,
greg k-h
------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------
From c175cb7cd953782bbf4e8bdf088ad61440d6dde5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Randy Dunlap rdunlap@infradead.org Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2017 17:06:01 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] iio: fix kernel-doc build errors
Fix build errors in kernel-doc notation. Symbols that end in '_' have a special meaning, but adding a '*' makes them OK.
../drivers/iio/industrialio-core.c:635: ERROR: Unknown target name: "iio_val". ../drivers/iio/industrialio-core.c:642: ERROR: Unknown target name: "iio_val".
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap rdunlap@infradead.org Cc: Stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com
diff --git a/drivers/iio/industrialio-core.c b/drivers/iio/industrialio-core.c index 9c4cfd19b739..2f0998ebeed2 100644 --- a/drivers/iio/industrialio-core.c +++ b/drivers/iio/industrialio-core.c @@ -631,7 +631,7 @@ static ssize_t __iio_format_value(char *buf, size_t len, unsigned int type, * iio_format_value() - Formats a IIO value into its string representation * @buf: The buffer to which the formatted value gets written * which is assumed to be big enough (i.e. PAGE_SIZE). - * @type: One of the IIO_VAL_... constants. This decides how the val + * @type: One of the IIO_VAL_* constants. This decides how the val * and val2 parameters are formatted. * @size: Number of IIO value entries contained in vals * @vals: Pointer to the values, exact meaning depends on the @@ -639,7 +639,7 @@ static ssize_t __iio_format_value(char *buf, size_t len, unsigned int type, * * Return: 0 by default, a negative number on failure or the * total number of characters written for a type that belongs - * to the IIO_VAL_... constant. + * to the IIO_VAL_* constant. */ ssize_t iio_format_value(char *buf, unsigned int type, int size, int *vals) {