Re: [tip:timers/core] hrtimer: Use a bullet for the returns bullet list

[Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>]

On Thu, 2019-06-27 at 14:46 -0700, tip-bot for Mauro Carvalho Chehab
wrote:
> Commit-ID:  516337048fa40496ae5ca9863c367ec991a44d9a
> Gitweb:     https://git.kernel.org/tip/516337048fa40496ae5ca9863c367ec991a44d9a
> Author:     Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
> AuthorDate: Mon, 24 Jun 2019 07:33:26 -0300
> Committer:  Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> CommitDate: Thu, 27 Jun 2019 23:30:04 +0200
> 
> hrtimer: Use a bullet for the returns bullet list
> 
> That gets rid of this warning:
> 
>    ./kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1119: WARNING: Block quote ends without a blank line; unexpected unindent.

Doesn't this form occur multiple dozens of times in
kernel sources?

For instance:

$ git grep -B3 -A5 -P "^ \* Returns:?$" | \
  grep -P -A8 '\-\s+\*\s*@\w+:'

I think the warning is odd at best and docutils might
be updated or the warning ignored or suppressed.

> and displays nicely both at the source code and at the produced
> documentation.

> diff --git a/kernel/time/hrtimer.c b/kernel/time/hrtimer.c
[]
> @@ -1114,9 +1114,10 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(hrtimer_start_range_ns);
>   * @timer:	hrtimer to stop
>   *
>   * Returns:
> - *  0 when the timer was not active
> - *  1 when the timer was active
> - * -1 when the timer is currently executing the callback function and
> + *
> + *  *  0 when the timer was not active
> + *  *  1 when the timer was active
> + *  * -1 when the timer is currently executing the callback function and
>   *    cannot be stopped
>   */
>  int hrtimer_try_to_cancel(struct hrtimer *timer)