There's a warning there from a .gitignore file: tools/perf/.gitignore: Documentation/doc.dep This is not really a cross-reference type of warning, so no need to report it. In a matter of fact, it doesn't make sense at all to even parse hidden files, as some text editors may create such files for their own usage. So, just ignore everything that matches this pattern: /\.* Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@xxxxxxxxxx> --- To mailbombing on a large number of people, only mailing lists were C/C on the cover. See [PATCH 0/2] at: https://lore.kernel.org/all/cover.1634629094.git.mchehab+huawei@xxxxxxxxxx/ scripts/documentation-file-ref-check | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/scripts/documentation-file-ref-check b/scripts/documentation-file-ref-check index 7187ea5e5149..6865d8e63d5c 100755 --- a/scripts/documentation-file-ref-check +++ b/scripts/documentation-file-ref-check @@ -94,6 +94,9 @@ while (<IN>) { # Makefiles and scripts contain nasty expressions to parse docs next if ($f =~ m/Makefile/ || $f =~ m/\.sh$/); + # It doesn't make sense to parse hidden files + next if ($f =~ m#/\.#); + # Skip this script next if ($f eq $scriptname); -- 2.31.1
