Re: [RFC] Proposal to relax warnings of htmldocs

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Wed, Aug 16, 2023 at 10:12:56AM -0500, Carlos Bilbao wrote:
> On 8/16/23 06:01, Jani Nikula wrote:
> > What I'd hope for is build system support to enable W=1
> > compiler/kernel-doc warnings for a subdir with a few lines at most,
> > instead of duplicating and copy-pasting tens of lines from
> > scripts/Makefile.extrawarn like we have to do now.
> 
> That sounds feasible but, well, I actually proposed the opposite approach.
> I wanted to "relax" the warnings (see RFC Subject) rather than making them
> more strict by default.
> 
> My concern is that W=1 (by default) may theoretically result in a clean
> `make htmldocs` but it won't in practice. Not all developers prioritize
> good documentation like the folks from i915, and that may lead to
> unaddressed warnings or worst, less interest in documenting the code. Isn't
> it the case that some of these higher-control warnings don't really have
> much effect in real life? And shoukd W=1 become the default, are we going
> to be able to enforce that level of control?

I wasn't proposing making W=1 builds the default; I was proposing
running kernel-doc -none at all levels.