[PATCH] mbuf: fix doxygen for distributor metadata

[David Marchand]

On Thu, Jun 15, 2023 at 5:15 PM Bruce Richardson
<bruce.richardson at intel.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jun 15, 2023 at 03:49:42PM +0200, David Marchand wrote:
> > /**< is for post annotations.
> >
> > Fixes: 839b20be0e9b ("ethdev: support metadata as flow rule criteria")
> > Cc: stable at dpdk.org
> >
> > Signed-off-by: David Marchand <david.marchand at redhat.com>
> > ---
> >  lib/mbuf/rte_mbuf_core.h | 2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/lib/mbuf/rte_mbuf_core.h b/lib/mbuf/rte_mbuf_core.h
> > index c692c33ec4..2030b3bef9 100644
> > --- a/lib/mbuf/rte_mbuf_core.h
> > +++ b/lib/mbuf/rte_mbuf_core.h
> > @@ -584,8 +584,8 @@ struct rte_mbuf {
> >                                * @see rte_event_eth_tx_adapter_txq_set()
> >                                */
> >                       } txadapter; /**< Eventdev ethdev Tx adapter */
> > -                     /**< User defined tags. See rte_distributor_process() */
> >                       uint32_t usr;
> > +                     /**< User defined tags. See rte_distributor_process() */
>
> Yes, this fixes the issue, but...
> I dislike having the comment on the line under the item in question. I
> think the post-annotation comments should only be used for comments on the
> same line. If the comment is to be on a different line, I think it should
> go on the previous line to the item. I also think this tends to be the
> style used throughout DPDK generally.

I dislike post annotations (regardless of being on the same line or
not) as it is easy to mix the description of fields in a structure.
But this file has many other usages of this form and, in doubt, I
aligned to them.

I can send a followup cleanup if you want, is that ok for you?


-- 
David Marchand