Re: make xmldocs failed with error after 4.17 merge period

[Greg KH]

On Fri, Apr 06, 2018 at 10:51:09AM +0300, Heikki Krogerus wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 06, 2018 at 12:38:42PM +0900, Masanari Iida wrote:
> > After merge following patch during 4.17 merger period,
> > make xmldocs start to fail with error.
> > 
> >  [bdecb33af34f79cbfbb656661210f77c8b8b5b5f]
> > usb: typec: API for controlling USB Type-C Multiplexers
> > 
> > Error messages.
> > reST markup error:
> > /home/iida/Repo/linux-2.6/Documentation/driver-api/usb/typec.rst:215:
> > (SEVERE/4) Unexpected section title or transition.
> > 
> > ------------------------
> > Documentation/Makefile:93: recipe for target 'xmldocs' failed
> > make[1]: *** [xmldocs] Error 1
> > Makefile:1527: recipe for target 'xmldocs' failed
> > make: *** [xmldocs] Error 2
> > 
> > $
> > 
> > An ascii graphic in typec.rst cause the error.
> 
> Thanks for the report. I'm going to propose that we fix this by
> marking the ascii art as comment:
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/usb/typec.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/usb/typec.rst
> index feb31946490b..972c11bf4141 100644
> --- a/Documentation/driver-api/usb/typec.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/driver-api/usb/typec.rst
> @@ -212,7 +212,7 @@ port drivers can use USB Role Class API with those.
> 
>  Illustration of the muxes behind a connector that supports an alternate mode:
> 
> -                     ------------------------
> +..                   ------------------------
>                       |       Connector      |
>                       ------------------------
>                              |         |
> 
> I hope that works.

Try it and see!  :)