Em Fri, 29 Dec 2017 20:12:15 -0800 Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> escreveu: > On 12/29/2017 06:28 PM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > > Em Fri, 29 Dec 2017 18:17:08 -0800 > > Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> escreveu: > > > >> In linux-next-20171222, this message: > >> > >> print STDERR "${file}:$.: warning:" . > >> " No description found for parameter '$param'\n"; > >> > >> has roughly/approximately been replaced with: > >> > >> print STDERR > >> "${file}:$.: warning: Function parameter or member '$param' not described in '$declaration_name'\n"; > >> > >> > >> Using linux-next-20171222, with its ("new") scripts/kernel-doc, I see > >> > >>> grep -c not.described doc005.out > >> 86 > >> > >> but if I use scripts/kernel-doc from linux-4.15-rc5 (in linux-next-20171222), I see > >> > >>> grep -c No.description.found doc006.out > >> 305 > >> > >> > >> This is not good. > > > > Actually, if you look at the messages produced before linux-next, you'll > > notice that the *same* error is reported multiple times. > > > > The problem is that some headers are included multiple times: > > > > $ git grep include/net/cfg80211.h Documentation/|wc -l > > 111 > > > > If you look inside Documentation/driver-api/80211/cfg80211.rst, > > you'll see: > > > > .. kernel-doc:: include/net/cfg80211.h > > :functions: ieee80211_channel_flags > > > > .. kernel-doc:: include/net/cfg80211.h > > :functions: ieee80211_channel > > > > ... > > > > With the old incarnation of kernel-doc, every time it parses an > > script, it generate warnings for all symbols, *including* the > > ones that aren't part of the kernel-doc output. The one at > > linux-next has an extra logic that, when "functions" is used, > > it will only output warnings for the symbol mentioned there, > > with prevents it to repeat the same error report every time. > > > > I suspect that, if you do: > > > > grep No.description.found doc006.out|sort|uniq|wc -l > > That (copy-and-pasted to prevent typos) gives me 304 (i.e., one less). > > > you'll see that the number of errors on 4.15-rc5 is actually > > smaller than on linux-next, as it now reports missing symbols > > on nested structs and unions. > > There are definitely missing parameter descriptions that are not being > reported in linux-next. Here's one such example (still working in > linux-next-20171222, just with differing versions of scripts/kernel-doc). > > kernel-doc from 4.15-rc5: > > ../net/core/dev.c:6400: warning: No description found for parameter 'extack' > ../net/core/dev.c:6423: warning: No description found for parameter 'extack' > > kernel-doc from linux-next-20171222: > > {those reports are missing but the descriptions are also missing} Hmm... here, it showed it: $ git checkout next-20171221 $ make SPHINXDIRS=networking htmldocs SPHINX htmldocs --> file:///devel/v4l/linux-next/Documentation/output/networking PARSE include/uapi/linux/dvb/audio.h PARSE include/uapi/linux/dvb/ca.h PARSE include/uapi/linux/dvb/dmx.h PARSE include/uapi/linux/dvb/frontend.h PARSE include/uapi/linux/dvb/net.h PARSE include/uapi/linux/dvb/video.h PARSE include/uapi/linux/videodev2.h PARSE include/uapi/linux/media.h PARSE include/uapi/linux/cec.h PARSE include/uapi/linux/lirc.h Running Sphinx v1.4.9 making output directory... load additional sphinx-config: /devel/v4l/linux-next/Documentation/networking/conf.py loading pickled environment... not yet created building [mo]: targets for 0 po files that are out of date building [html]: targets for 5 source files that are out of date updating environment: 5 added, 0 changed, 0 removed ./net/core/dev.c:1695: warning: Excess function parameter 'dev' description in 'call_netdevice_notifiers_info' ./net/core/dev.c:6398: warning: No description found for parameter 'extack' ./net/core/dev.c:6421: warning: No description found for parameter 'extack' ./include/linux/phylink.h:56: warning: No description found for parameter '__ETHTOOL_DECLARE_LINK_MODE_MASK(advertising' ./include/linux/phylink.h:56: warning: No description found for parameter '__ETHTOOL_DECLARE_LINK_MODE_MASK(lp_advertising' ./include/linux/phylink.h:56: warning: Excess struct member 'advertising' description in 'phylink_link_state' ./include/linux/phylink.h:56: warning: Excess struct member 'lp_advertising' description in 'phylink_link_state' ./drivers/net/phy/sfp-bus.c:430: warning: No description found for parameter 'fwnode' ./drivers/net/phy/sfp-bus.c:430: warning: Excess function parameter 'np' description in 'sfp_register_upstream' ./drivers/net/phy/sfp-bus.c:430: warning: No description found for parameter 'fwnode' ./drivers/net/phy/sfp-bus.c:430: warning: Excess function parameter 'np' description in 'sfp_register_upstream' reading sources... [100%] z8530book ./net/core/dev.c:4519: ERROR: Unknown target name: "page_is". looking for now-outdated files... none found pickling environment... done checking consistency... /devel/v4l/linux-next/Documentation/networking/msg_zerocopy.rst:: WARNING: document isn't included in any toctree done preparing documents... done writing output... [100%] z8530book generating indices... genindex writing additional pages... search copying static files... done copying extra files... done dumping search index in English (code: en) ... done dumping object inventory... done build succeeded, 2 warnings. Thanks, Mauro -- 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