On Mon, 2020-10-05 at 11:38 +0200, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > the files under /80211 calls kernel-doc script 207 times, one for each > single function and doc chapter. Due to that, it takes a lot of time > handling it: > > $ touch Documentation/driver-api/80211/*rst && time make SPHINXDIRS=driver-api/80211 htmldocs > ... > real 0m22,928s > user 0m21,644s > sys 0m1,334s > > Reduce the build time by doing only one kernel-doc call > per functions that belong to the same group. With that, there's now > 50 calls to kernel-doc, which makes the build time for those docs > 62% faster: > > $ touch Documentation/driver-api/80211/*rst && time make SPHINXDIRS=driver-api/80211 htmldocs > ... > real 0m8,666s > user 0m8,084s > sys 0m0,642s > > As a side effect, it should now be easier to add newer > functions, as there's no need to repeat the kernel-doc > pattern. Thanks, I'll apply this. I wasn't even aware of that syntax ... johannes
