Re: [RFC] Proposal to relax warnings of htmldocs

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Wed, Aug 16, 2023 at 10:21:07AM -0500, Carlos Bilbao wrote:
> On 8/16/23 10:15, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > I wasn't proposing making W=1 builds the default; I was proposing
> > running kernel-doc -none at all levels.
> 
> More strict warning level, right? My concern is the same.

The problem you're seeing with kernel-doc warning about undocumented
fields / parameters is due to people not running kernel-doc -none.
So I'm proposing this:

diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.build b/scripts/Makefile.build
index 82e3fb19fdaf..52f57c0c5227 100644
--- a/scripts/Makefile.build
+++ b/scripts/Makefile.build
@@ -100,11 +100,9 @@ else ifeq ($(KBUILD_CHECKSRC),2)
         cmd_force_checksrc = $(CHECK) $(CHECKFLAGS) $(c_flags) $<
 endif

-ifneq ($(KBUILD_EXTRA_WARN),)
-  cmd_checkdoc = $(srctree)/scripts/kernel-doc -none $(KDOCFLAGS) \
+cmd_checkdoc = $(srctree)/scripts/kernel-doc -none $(KDOCFLAGS) \
         $(if $(findstring 2, $(KBUILD_EXTRA_WARN)), -Wall) \
         $<
-endif

 # Compile C sources (.c)
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Now everybody runs kernel-doc -none on every build and you don't get to
see that problem any more.