ok, i'm sure i'm doing something trivially idiotic here, but i wanted to comment out a section of device-drivers.tmpl (the I2O section, since it's been moved in linux-next), so i made the following tiny change: =============== diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/device-drivers.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/device-drivers.tmpl index f213058..278cff7 100644 --- a/Documentation/DocBook/device-drivers.tmpl +++ b/Documentation/DocBook/device-drivers.tmpl @@ -190,6 +190,7 @@ X!Edrivers/pnp/system.c !Idrivers/message/fusion/mptfc.c !Idrivers/message/fusion/mptlan.c </sect1> +<!-- Removed by rday <sect1><title>I2O message devices</title> !Iinclude/linux/i2o.h !Idrivers/message/i2o/core.h @@ -207,6 +208,7 @@ X!Edrivers/pnp/system.c !Idrivers/message/i2o/i2o_scsi.c !Idrivers/message/i2o/i2o_proc.c </sect1> +--> </chapter> <chapter id="snddev"> ================= as in, i just commented out the section in question, as i've seen done in numerous places in .tmpl files, and i ran "make htmldocs", and got the following weirdness: ========== HTML Documentation/DocBook/device-drivers.html /home/rpjday/k/git/Documentation/DocBook/device-drivers.xml:35805: parser error : Double hyphen within comment: <!-- Removed by rday <sect1><title>I2O message de <!-- include/linux/i2o.h --> ^ /home/rpjday/k/git/Documentation/DocBook/device-drivers.xml:42849: parser error : Opening and ending tag mismatch: chapter line 28979 and sect1 </sect1> ^ /home/rpjday/k/git/Documentation/DocBook/device-drivers.xml:42851: parser error : Opening and ending tag mismatch: book line 5 and chapter </chapter> ^ /home/rpjday/k/git/Documentation/DocBook/device-drivers.xml:42853: parser error : Extra content at the end of the document <chapter id="snddev"> ^ unable to parse /home/rpjday/k/git/Documentation/DocBook/device-drivers.xml ============= a double hyphen within a comment? sure enough, if i go to the generated XML file, i see: ... snip ... </sect1> <!-- Removed by rday <sect1><title>I2O message devices</title> <!-- include/linux/i2o.h --> <refentry id="API-i2o-driver-notify-controller-add"> <refentryinfo> ... snip ... i don't get it ... why is my comment not removing all of that content ... why is the reference to include/linux/i2o.h still there, also commented, which appears to be what is causing the error? what am i doing stupidly? rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ======================================================================== -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html