Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] kernel-doc: Issue warnings that were silently discarded

[Andy Shevchenko]

On Wed, Nov 05, 2025 at 11:12:18AM -0700, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> [Heads up to Stephen: this change will add a bunch of warnings that had
> been dropped before.]
> 
> Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > When kernel-doc parses the sections for the documentation some errors
> > may occur. In many cases the warning is simply stored to the current
> > "entry" object. However, in the most of such cases this object gets
> > discarded and there is no way for the output engine to even know about
> > that. To avoid that, check if the "entry" is going to be discarded and
> > if there warnings have been collected, issue them to the current logger
> > as is and then flush the "entry". This fixes the problem that original
> > Perl implementation doesn't have.
> 
> I would really like to redo how some of that logging is done, but that
> is an exercise for another day.  For now, I have applied this one,
> thanks.

Thank you!

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko