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

[Randy Dunlap]

On 1/7/26 3:46 PM, Bagas Sanjaya wrote:
> 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)

I'm using docutils-3.13 (Docutils 0.22.3, Python 3.13.11, on linux)
and I don't see these warnings.
Maybe it's something that has been fixed between 0.21.2 and 0.22.3... ?

-- 
~Randy