Right now, seqloc.h produces two kernel-doc warnings:

        ./include/linux/seqlock.h:181: error: Cannot parse typedef!
        WARNING: kernel-doc './scripts/kernel-doc -rst -enable-lineno 
./include/linux/seqlock.h' failed with return code 1

Those are due to two things:

1. the kernel-doc markup syntax doesn't recognize "typedef"
   expression at the markup. Both functions and typedefs
   use the same notation:

        /**
         * foo - some bar description
         */
  or
        /**
         * foo() - some bar description
         */

2. kernel-doc markups require a function or typedef prototype,
   in order to get the type of each argument. This is also
   common for other code documentation markkup languages, like
   doxygen.

On other words, a valid notation for describing those macros
would be:

         /**
          * seqcount_LOCKNAME_t() - sequence counter with LOCKNAME associated
          * @seqcount:  The real sequence counter
          * @lock:      Pointer to the associated lock
          *
          * <some description>
          */
        #if 0 /* kernel-doc needs a function or typedef prototype */
        void seqcount_LOCKNAME_t(seqcount_##lockname##_t *seqcount, locktype 
*lock) {}
        #endif

Alternatively, the description of those arguments should be added
as a DOC: block.

Yet, from changeset a28e884b966e ("seqlock: Fix multiple kernel-doc warnings"),
it sounds that, on this file, it is preferred to just convert the
kernel-doc markups into simple comments.

Fixes: a8772dccb2ec ("seqlock: Fold seqcount_LOCKNAME_t definition")
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+hua...@kernel.org>
---
 include/linux/seqlock.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/seqlock.h b/include/linux/seqlock.h
index ac5b07f558b0..cbfc78b92b65 100644
--- a/include/linux/seqlock.h
+++ b/include/linux/seqlock.h
@@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ static inline void seqcount_lockdep_reader_access(const 
seqcount_t *s)
 #define __SEQ_LOCK(expr)
 #endif
 
-/**
+/*
  * typedef seqcount_LOCKNAME_t - sequence counter with LOCKNAME associated
  * @seqcount:  The real sequence counter
  * @lock:      Pointer to the associated lock
-- 
2.26.2

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