Don't build media .rst files from header files when Documentation/media/ is not in the target SPHINXDIRS. It looks like the dependencies in Documentation/media/Makefile should take care of running parse-headers.pl to generated .rst files from the header files, but it's not happening and I don't see why not. --- Documentation/Makefile | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) --- linux-next-20180426.orig/Documentation/Makefile +++ linux-next-20180426/Documentation/Makefile @@ -52,8 +52,7 @@ loop_cmd = $(echo-cmd) $(cmd_$(1)) || ex # e.g. "media" for the linux-tv book-set at ./Documentation/media quiet_cmd_sphinx = SPHINX $@ --> file://$(abspath $(BUILDDIR)/$3/$4) - cmd_sphinx = $(MAKE) BUILDDIR=$(abspath $(BUILDDIR)) $(build)=Documentation/media $2 && \ - PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE=1 \ + cmd_sphinx = PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE=1 \ BUILDDIR=$(abspath $(BUILDDIR)) SPHINX_CONF=$(abspath $(srctree)/$(src)/$5/$(SPHINX_CONF)) \ $(SPHINXBUILD) \ -b $2 \ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html