Re: [REGRESSION] Unexpected section title false positive warnings on DOC: directive

From: Bagas Sanjaya

Date: Wed Jan 07 2026 - 18:46:36 EST


On Wed, Jan 07, 2026 at 10:19:32AM -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>
>
> On 1/7/26 5:08 AM, Bagas Sanjaya wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 06, 2026 at 02:58:43PM -0700, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> >> Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> >>
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> Building htmldocs on docs-next currenly produces about 50 new warnings; which
> >>> all of them are unexpected section title on DOC: kernel-doc directive, like:
> >>>
> >>> /home/bagas/repo/linux-kernel/Documentation/driver-api/target:25: ./drivers/target/target_core_user.c:35: CRITICAL: Unexpected section title.
> >>>
> >>> Userspace I/O
> >>> ------------- [docutils]
> >>> WARNING: kernel-doc 'scripts/kernel-doc.py -rst -enable-lineno -function 'Userspace I/O' ./drivers/target/target_core_user.c' processing failed with: SystemMessage('/home/bagas/repo/linux-kernel/Documentation/driver-api/target:25: ./drivers/target/target_core_user.c:35: (SEVERE/4) Unexpected section title.\n\nUserspace I/O\n-------------')
> >>> /home/bagas/repo/linux-kernel/Documentation/driver-api/target:28: ./include/uapi/linux/target_core_user.h:14: CRITICAL: Unexpected section title.
> >>
> >> So I did not, and do not, see any of these errors; are you doing
> >> something special to get them?
> >
> > Nope.
> >
> > I'm running my htmldocs builds on my Arch Linux system (with Sphinx 9.0.4 and
> > Python 3.13.11).
> >
> > Full log (tarred up) attached.
> >
> > Thanks.
>
> Hi,
> What docutils version, please?

Mine have:

docutils (Docutils 0.21.2, Python 3.13.11, on linux)

Thanks.

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