Currently, there's no way to exclude identifiers from
a kernel-doc markup. Add support for it.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/doc-guide/kernel-doc.rst | 8 ++++++++
Documentation/sphinx/kerneldoc.py | 7 +++++++
2 files changed, 15 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/doc-guide/kernel-doc.rst b/Documentation/doc-guide/kernel-doc.rst
index 4fd86c21397b..52a87ab4c99f 100644
--- a/Documentation/doc-guide/kernel-doc.rst
+++ b/Documentation/doc-guide/kernel-doc.rst
@@ -490,6 +490,14 @@ identifiers: *[ function/type ...]*
.. kernel-doc:: lib/idr.c
:identifiers:
+no-identifiers: *[ function/type ...]*
+ Exclude documentation for each *function* and *type* in *source*.
+
+ Example::
+
+ .. kernel-doc:: lib/bitmap.c
+ :no-identifiers: bitmap_parselist
+
functions: *[ function/type ...]*
This is an alias of the 'identifiers' directive and deprecated.
diff --git a/Documentation/sphinx/kerneldoc.py b/Documentation/sphinx/kerneldoc.py
index a3a5427130da..e9857ab904f1 100644
--- a/Documentation/sphinx/kerneldoc.py
+++ b/Documentation/sphinx/kerneldoc.py
@@ -62,6 +62,7 @@ class KernelDocDirective(Directive):
'export': directives.unchanged,
'internal': directives.unchanged,
'identifiers': directives.unchanged,
+ 'no-identifiers': directives.unchanged,
'functions': directives.unchanged,
}
has_content = False
@@ -104,6 +105,12 @@ class KernelDocDirective(Directive):
else:
cmd += ['-no-doc-sections']
+ if 'no-identifiers' in self.options:
+ no_identifiers = self.options.get('no-identifiers').split()
+ if no_identifiers:
+ for i in no_identifiers:
+ cmd += ['-nosymbol', i]
+
for pattern in export_file_patterns:
for f in glob.glob(env.config.kerneldoc_srctree + '/' + pattern):
env.note_dependency(os.path.abspath(f))
--
2.26.2
