From: Frank Rowand <frank.rowand@xxxxxxxx> (1) The command to generate man pages is truncated in the pdf version of the document. Reformat the command into multiple lines to prevent the truncation. (2) Older versions of git do not support all variants of pathspec syntax. Provide commands to generate man pages for various alternate syntax. Signed-off-by: Frank Rowand <frank.rowand@xxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/doc-guide/kernel-doc.rst | 15 ++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Documentation/doc-guide/kernel-doc.rst b/Documentation/doc-guide/kernel-doc.rst index 51be62aa4385..450ac634e92e 100644 --- a/Documentation/doc-guide/kernel-doc.rst +++ b/Documentation/doc-guide/kernel-doc.rst @@ -517,4 +517,17 @@ How to use kernel-doc to generate man pages If you just want to use kernel-doc to generate man pages you can do this from the kernel git tree:: - $ scripts/kernel-doc -man $(git grep -l '/\*\*' -- :^Documentation :^tools) | scripts/split-man.pl /tmp/man + $ scripts/kernel-doc -man \ + $(git grep -l '/\*\*' -- :^Documentation :^tools) \ + | scripts/split-man.pl /tmp/man + +Some older versions of git do not support some of the variants of syntax for +path exclusion. One of the following commands may work for those versions:: + + $ scripts/kernel-doc -man \ + $(git grep -l '/\*\*' -- . ':!Documentation' ':!tools') \ + | scripts/split-man.pl /tmp/man + + $ scripts/kernel-doc -man \ + $(git grep -l '/\*\*' -- . ":(exclude)Documentation" ":(exclude)tools") \ + | scripts/split-man.pl /tmp/man -- Frank Rowand <frank.rowand@xxxxxxxx>
