Re: [PATCH] kernel-doc: set verbose mode via environment

[Randy Dunlap]

On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 19:11:04 -0800 Andrew Morton wrote:

> On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 17:53:58 -0800 Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > Allow setting environment variable "KERNEL_DOC_VERBOSE=1" to enable
> > verbose mode in scripts/kernel-doc.  Useful for getting more
> > info and warnings from kernel-doc.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  scripts/kernel-doc |    4 ++++
> >  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> > 
> > --- linux-2.6.25-rc3.orig/scripts/kernel-doc
> > +++ linux-2.6.25-rc3/scripts/kernel-doc
> > @@ -247,6 +247,10 @@ my ($function, %function_table,%paramete
> >  my ($type,$declaration_name,$return_type);
> >  my ($newsection,$newcontents,$prototype,$filelist, $brcount, %source_map);
> >  
> > +if (defined($ENV{'KERNEL_DOC_VERBOSE'})) {
> > +	$verbose = "$ENV{'KERNEL_DOC_VERBOSE'}";
> > +}
> > +
> >  # Generated docbook code is inserted in a template at a point where
> >  # docbook v3.1 requires a non-zero sequence of RefEntry's; see:
> >  # http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/documentation/reference/html/refentry.html
> 
> Shouldn't this be, err, documented somewhere?

I did think about that.  I was still wondering where to add it.

> I'd have expected to obtain this functionality by running `make V=1 foodocs'?

Sam, any thoughts on Makefile passing "-v" to scripts/kernel-doc ?

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~Randy
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