Re: [PATCH 0/2] Move kernel-doc to tools/docs

[Randy Dunlap]

On 1/14/26 8:41 AM, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> All of the documentation-related tools have been gathered together in
> tools/docs, with one exception: kernel-doc still lives under scripts/.
> Move it to its proper home, fixing up a fair number of references along the
> way.
> 
> This move was delayed because it ran afoul of one other relatively recent
> change.  With the conversion of kernel-doc to Python, the Sphinx kerneldoc
> extension gained the ability to import the relevant modules directly, but
> it also kept the option of running kernel-doc as a separate process.  To
> decide which course to take, the extension looks at the kerneldoc_bin
> configuration setting; if that setting ends with "kernel-doc.py", it
> chooses the import method.
> 
> Some of us found that behavior a bit obscure.  It also complicated the task
> of moving scripts/kernel-doc.py to tools/docs/kernel-doc.  I tried a couple
> of ways of preserving this behavior but ended up with solutions that were
> just as obscure.
> 
> So I took a different approach.  In the end, the ability to run kernel-doc
> as a separate process does not buy us much.  For debugging purposes, it's
> easier to just run kernel-doc by hand directly.  So this series simply
> removes that capability, simplifying the logic and removing a bunch of
> code.  The code that creates the command line remains in case anybody
> should ever want a specific invocation to run by hand.
> 
> Jonathan Corbet (2):
>   docs: kdoc: remove support for an external kernel-doc from sphinx
>   Move kernel-doc to tools/docs

I do many of these on a regular basis:

$ ./scripts/kernel-doc -none -Wall <path_to_source_file>

Will I still be able to do that (by using ./tools/doc/kernel-doc ...)?


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~Randy