linux-kernel - Re: [PULL] Docs for 4.13

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Message-Id: <DAFD3CCB-2BDF-4713-9D3F-28264401F811@darmarit.de>
Date:   Tue, 4 Jul 2017 09:56:06 +0200
From:   Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@...marit.de>
To:     Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Doc Mailing List <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PULL] Docs for 4.13

Hi Jon,

> Am 04.07.2017 um 06:32 schrieb Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>:

[...]

> At the same time, lots of people run a lot of builds, and while I'd
> love to see warnings about docs failures, I am *not* willing to slow
> down my usual build enormously. I run "male allmodconfig" builds
> between every single pull during the merge window, and while it's
> often parallel with me looking at the problems, I don't really want to
> slow the build down too much. And the doc building is still *slow*.
> 
> Is there some fast "just basic sanity checks" that would be more reasonable?
> 
> Because one thing that the switch to sphinx has done is that the doc
> build environment seems saner (tool-wise). So now that kind of thing
> would at least be _possible_ to do in ways I don't think was
> reasonable with docbook.

Sphinx has 'dummy' builder since v1.4. I send a patch with a lintdocs
target [1]. Having a lintdocs target under which we can optimizes
linting might be useful at all and the 'dummy' builder is IMO a
good starting point ..

> And now docbook is finally gone. But sphinx isn't exactly a speed demon either.

The time-saving of the 'dummy' builder against the 'html' builder is about 40%.

[1] https://www.mail-archive.com/linux-doc@vger.kernel.org/msg13248.html

-- Markus --