On Tue, Nov 03, 2020 at 01:18:27PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 3, 2020 at 11:44 AM Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > This pull contains a series of warning fixes from Mauro; once applied, the
> > number of warnings from the once-noisy docs build process is nearly zero.
> > Getting to this point has required a lot of work; once there, hopefully we
> > can keep things that way.
>
> I wonder if it is quiet enough that we could make new doc build noise
> trigger some kind of linux-next warning?
We can move checkdoc out of W=1 ... something like this?
+++ b/scripts/Makefile.build
@@ -103,9 +103,7 @@ else ifeq ($(KBUILD_CHECKSRC),2)
cmd_force_checksrc = $(CHECK) $(CHECKFLAGS) $(c_flags) $<
endif
-ifneq ($(KBUILD_EXTRA_WARN),)
- cmd_checkdoc = $(srctree)/scripts/kernel-doc -none $<
-endif
+cmd_checkdoc = $(srctree)/scripts/kernel-doc -none $<
# Compile C sources (.c)
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
although people might whinge if it increases kernel build time noticably
(I haven't checked if it does).
It won't catch all the things that actually running Sphinx will, but
it catches the common things (forgot to update the docs after changing a
function parameter, for example)
