Re: [REGRESSION] Unexpected section title false positive warnings on DOC: directive
From: Jonathan Corbet
Date: Tue Jan 06 2026 - 16:58:44 EST
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?
jon