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Message-ID: <6d36de0a-5ab4-4862-abcc-c7946e6f80b1@infradead.org>
Date:   Mon, 18 Sep 2023 21:30:43 -0700
From:   Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
To:     Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        linux-doc@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kernel-doc: add a warning prefix option



On 9/18/23 21:08, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 18, 2023 at 07:34:15PM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>> Add an environment variable ("KDOC_LABEL") for use by scripts/kernel-doc.
>> This variable instructs kernel-doc to label each "warning:" line with
>> a prefix of the KDOC_LABEL value. E.g., using
>>   KDOC_LABEL="doc" ./scripts/kernel-doc -none -Wall kernel/panic.c
>> causes kernel-doc warnings to be emitted as "doc warning:", like this:
>>   kernel/panic.c:497: doc warning: No description found for return value of 'print_tainted'
>>
>> This can aid either in finding or eliminating kernel-doc warnings.
> 
> I worry this will lead to people saying "Oh, it's just a doc warning,
> so I ignored it".

Yeah, that's a fair comment.

I'll find some other way to do what I want to do.

Thanks.
-- 
~Randy

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