When there's no Documentation/output directory, the script will complain about those missing references: Documentation/doc-guide/sphinx.rst: Documentation/output Documentation/doc-guide/sphinx.rst: Documentation/output Documentation/process/howto.rst: Documentation/output Documentation/translations/it_IT/doc-guide/sphinx.rst: Documentation/output Documentation/translations/it_IT/doc-guide/sphinx.rst: Documentation/output Documentation/translations/it_IT/process/howto.rst: Documentation/output Documentation/translations/ja_JP/howto.rst: Documentation/output Documentation/translations/ko_KR/howto.rst: Documentation/output Those are false positives, so add an ignore rule for them. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@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 a4139a576726..7784c54aa38b 100755 --- a/scripts/documentation-file-ref-check +++ b/scripts/documentation-file-ref-check @@ -90,6 +90,9 @@ while (<IN>) { # Skip this script next if ($f eq $scriptname); + # Ignore the dir where documentation will be built + next if ($ln =~ m,\b(\S*)Documentation/output,); + if ($ln =~ m,\b(\S*)(Documentation/[A-Za-z0-9\_\.\,\~/\*\[\]\?+-]*)(.*),) { my $prefix = $1; my $ref = $2; -- 2.21.0