Re: [PATCH v3 0/8] Collect documentation-related tools under /tools/docs
From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab
Date: Fri Nov 07 2025 - 05:34:57 EST
Em Mon, 27 Oct 2025 11:04:27 -0600
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx> escreveu:
> Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > Patch is incomplete, as it doesn't drop the logic which forks
> > kernel-doc script run, but see below.
>
> So I clearly hadn't fully understood how this works. Before I went and
> broke things, the logic seemed to be:
>
> If the kerneldoc_bin environment variable is "kernel-doc.py"
> don't actually run kernel-doc.py, build it internally instead
> else
> run whatever program the variable points to
>
> ...
> set kerneldoc_bin to "kernel-doc.py" by default
>
> This seems ... a bit obscure.
Yes, but it was the best alternative I found back then :-)
Regards,
Mauro