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When kernel-doc parses the sections for the documentation some errors
may occur. In many cases the warning is simply stored to the current
"entry" object. However, in the most of such cases this object gets
discarded and there is no way for the output engine to even know about
that. To avoid that, check if the "entry" is going to be discarded and
if there warnings have been collected, issue them to the current logger
as is and then flush the "entry". This fixes the problem that original
Perl implementation doesn't have.
As of Linux kernel v6.18-rc4 the reproducer can be:
$ scripts/kernel-doc -v -none -Wall include/linux/util_macros.h
...
Info: include/linux/util_macros.h:138 Scanning doc for function to_user_ptr
...
while with the proposed change applied it gives one more line:
$ scripts/kernel-doc -v -none -Wall include/linux/util_macros.h
...
Info: include/linux/util_macros.h:138 Scanning doc for function to_user_ptr
Warning: include/linux/util_macros.h:144 expecting prototype for to_user_ptr(). Prototype was for u64_to_user_ptr() instead
...
And with the original Perl script:
$ scripts/kernel-doc.pl -v -none -Wall include/linux/util_macros.h
...
include/linux/util_macros.h:139: info: Scanning doc for function to_user_ptr
include/linux/util_macros.h:149: warning: expecting prototype for to_user_ptr(). Prototype was for u64_to_user_ptr() instead
...
Fixes: 9cbc2d3b137b ("scripts/kernel-doc.py: postpone warnings to the output plugin")
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <20251104215502.1049817-1-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.