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Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2024 11:10:37 +0100
From: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@...cle.com>
To: Breno Leitao <leitao@...ian.org>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
Cc: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@...lux.com>, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] docs: Makefile: Fix make cleandocs by deleting generated
 .rst files


On 09/02/2024 10:38, Breno Leitao wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 08, 2024 at 03:52:08PM -0700, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
>> Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@...lux.com> writes:
>>
>>> The script tools/net/ynl/ynl-gen-rst.py (YNL_TOOL) generates several .rst
>>> files (YNL_INDEX, YNL_RST_FILES) in Documentation/networking/netlink_spec
>>> (YNL_RST_DIR) which are not deleted by make cleandocs.
>>>
>>> Fix make cleandocs by deleting the generated .rst files.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@...lux.com>
>>> ---
>>>   Documentation/Makefile | 1 +
>>>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/Documentation/Makefile b/Documentation/Makefile
>>> index 3885bbe260eb..4479910166fc 100644
>>> --- a/Documentation/Makefile
>>> +++ b/Documentation/Makefile
>>> @@ -176,6 +176,7 @@ refcheckdocs:
>>>   	$(Q)cd $(srctree);scripts/documentation-file-ref-check
>>>   
>>>   cleandocs:
>>> +	$(Q)rm -f $(YNL_INDEX) $(YNL_RST_FILES)
> 
> I haven't check but I _think_ that just deleting $(YNL_INDEX) is enough
> here, since $(YNL_INDEX) depends on $(YNL_RST_FILES).

I think removing all of them is the right thing to do.

>>>   	$(Q)rm -rf $(BUILDDIR)
>>>   	$(Q)$(MAKE) BUILDDIR=$(abspath $(BUILDDIR)) $(build)=Documentation/userspace-api/media clean
>>
>> So this seems worth doing ... except that there has been talk about not
>> depositing those files into the source tree in the first place.  Adding
>> Vegard and Breno to see if they have any thoughts on the matter...
> 
> Agree. This is definitely worth doing.

Agree too.

I'll have a look into putting those files in the build directory, this
patch shouldn't affect that.

Reviewed-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@...cle.com>


Vegard

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