Re: [RFC] Proposal to relax warnings of htmldocs

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Tue, Aug 15, 2023 at 08:35:40PM +0200, Miguel Ojeda wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 15, 2023 at 8:23 PM Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > As an alternative, of course, we could consider turning off those
> > specific warnings entirely for normal builds.
> 
> It could be nice to get to enforce warning-free builds as soon as possible.
> 
> Perhaps we could move those to a `W=1`-like group and clean them over
> time instead? Or do we have that already?

I think the problem is that we don't run kernel-doc by default.  Instead,
it's only run for W=1 (and higher) builds.  That's why Carlos doesn't
see the problems he is introducing in his own builds.  Of course, if
AMD required building with W=1 then they'd see these problems earlier
in their own testing.  Apparently they don't.

Is it time to just run kernel-doc by default?  There aren't _that_
many kernel-doc warnings now.  Not compared to how they used to be.
And enabling them for everyone means that new ones won't sneak in.
I haven't timed how much extra time kernel-doc adds to a build.
Perhaps that's infeasible.