linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] scripts/kernel-doc: optionally treat warnings as errors

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Message-ID: <20200727171506.1e05a50a@lwn.net>
Date:   Mon, 27 Jul 2020 17:15:06 -0600
From:   Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
To:     Pierre-Louis Bossart <pierre-louis.bossart@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scripts/kernel-doc: optionally treat warnings as errors

On Mon, 27 Jul 2020 18:09:21 -0500
Pierre-Louis Bossart <pierre-louis.bossart@...ux.intel.com> wrote:

> Both points were covered by the sentence "A command-line option is
> provided to the kernel-doc script, as well as a check on environment
> variables to turn this optional behavior on".


Making that more prominent would be good, but a changelog like this should
say *which* command-line option was provided, and *which* environment
variables are checked.  Don't make people go digging through the patch to
figure it out.  See what I'm getting at?

Thanks,

jon