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Message-ID: <87y0rmaom6.fsf@trenco.lwn.net>
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2025 15:38:41 -0600
From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
To: linux-doc@...r.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Mauro Carvalho Chehab
<mchehab+huawei@...nel.org>, Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@...il.com>, Randy
Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>, Alex Shi <alexs@...nel.org>, Yanteng Si
<si.yanteng@...ux.dev>, Dongliang Mu <dzm91@...t.edu.cn>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 00/13] Collect documention-related tools under
tools/doc
[Adding some CCs - sorry, folks, I messed that part up somehow...]
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net> writes:
> Our documentation-related tools are spread out over various directories;
> several are buried in the scripts/ dumping ground. That makes them harder
> to discover and harder to maintain.
>
> Recently, the idea of creating a dedicated directory for documentation tools
> came up; I decided to see what it would look like. This series creates a
> new directory, tools/doc, and moves various utilities there, hopefully
> fixing up all of the relevant references in the process.
>
> At the end, rather than move the old, Perl kernel-doc, I simply removed it.
>
> The big elephant lurking in this small room is the home for Python modules;
> I left them under scripts/lib, but that is an even less appropriate place
> than it was before. I would propose either tools/python or lib/python;
> thoughts on that matter welcome.
>
>
> Jonathan Corbet (13):
> docs: Move the "features" tools to tools/doc
> docs: move checktransupdate.py to tools/doc
> docs: move scripts/check-variable-fonts.sh to tools/doc
> docs: move scripts/documentation-file-ref-check to tools/doc
> docs: move parallel-wrapper.sh to tools/doc/
> docs: move get_abi.py to tools/doc
> docs: move sphinx-pre-install to tools/doc
> docs: move test_doc_build.py to tools/doc
> docs: move parse-headers.pl to tools/doc
> docs: move kernel-doc to tools/doc
> docs: move split-man.pl to tools/doc
> docs: move find-unused-docs.sh to tools/doc
> docs: remove kernel-doc.pl
>
> Documentation/Kconfig | 2 +-
> Documentation/Makefile | 24 +-
> Documentation/conf.py | 2 +-
> Documentation/doc-guide/checktransupdate.rst | 6 +-
> Documentation/doc-guide/contributing.rst | 2 +-
> Documentation/doc-guide/kernel-doc.rst | 18 +-
> Documentation/doc-guide/parse-headers.rst | 6 +-
> Documentation/doc-guide/sphinx.rst | 6 +-
> Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.rst | 2 +-
> Documentation/process/coding-style.rst | 2 +-
> Documentation/sphinx/kernel_abi.py | 2 +-
> Documentation/sphinx/kernel_feat.py | 4 +-
> Documentation/sphinx/kerneldoc-preamble.sty | 2 +-
> .../it_IT/doc-guide/kernel-doc.rst | 8 +-
> .../it_IT/doc-guide/parse-headers.rst | 6 +-
> .../translations/it_IT/doc-guide/sphinx.rst | 4 +-
> .../sp_SP/process/coding-style.rst | 2 +-
> .../zh_CN/doc-guide/checktransupdate.rst | 6 +-
> .../zh_CN/doc-guide/contributing.rst | 2 +-
> .../zh_CN/doc-guide/kernel-doc.rst | 16 +-
> .../zh_CN/doc-guide/parse-headers.rst | 6 +-
> .../translations/zh_CN/doc-guide/sphinx.rst | 4 +-
> Documentation/translations/zh_CN/how-to.rst | 4 +-
> .../translations/zh_CN/kbuild/kbuild.rst | 2 +-
> .../zh_CN/process/coding-style.rst | 2 +-
> .../zh_TW/process/coding-style.rst | 2 +-
> Documentation/userspace-api/media/Makefile | 2 +-
> MAINTAINERS | 11 +-
> Makefile | 2 +-
> drivers/gpu/drm/i915/Makefile | 2 +-
> scripts/kernel-doc | 1 -
> scripts/kernel-doc.pl | 2439 -----------------
> .../doc}/check-variable-fonts.sh | 2 +-
> {scripts => tools/doc}/checktransupdate.py | 8 +-
> .../doc}/documentation-file-ref-check | 2 +-
> .../scripts => tools/doc}/features-refresh.sh | 0
> {scripts => tools/doc}/find-unused-docs.sh | 8 +-
> {scripts => tools/doc}/get_abi.py | 0
> {scripts => tools/doc}/get_feat.pl | 2 +-
> scripts/kernel-doc.py => tools/doc/kernel-doc | 0
> .../features => tools/doc}/list-arch.sh | 2 +-
> .../sphinx => tools/doc}/parallel-wrapper.sh | 0
> .../sphinx => tools/doc}/parse-headers.pl | 4 +-
> {scripts => tools/doc}/sphinx-pre-install | 2 +-
> {scripts => tools/doc}/split-man.pl | 0
> {scripts => tools/doc}/test_doc_build.py | 0
> 46 files changed, 91 insertions(+), 2538 deletions(-)
> delete mode 120000 scripts/kernel-doc
> delete mode 100755 scripts/kernel-doc.pl
> rename {scripts => tools/doc}/check-variable-fonts.sh (98%)
> rename {scripts => tools/doc}/checktransupdate.py (98%)
> rename {scripts => tools/doc}/documentation-file-ref-check (99%)
> rename {Documentation/features/scripts => tools/doc}/features-refresh.sh (100%)
> rename {scripts => tools/doc}/find-unused-docs.sh (79%)
> rename {scripts => tools/doc}/get_abi.py (100%)
> rename {scripts => tools/doc}/get_feat.pl (99%)
> rename scripts/kernel-doc.py => tools/doc/kernel-doc (100%)
> rename {Documentation/features => tools/doc}/list-arch.sh (83%)
> rename {Documentation/sphinx => tools/doc}/parallel-wrapper.sh (100%)
> rename {Documentation/sphinx => tools/doc}/parse-headers.pl (98%)
> rename {scripts => tools/doc}/sphinx-pre-install (99%)
> rename {scripts => tools/doc}/split-man.pl (100%)
> rename {scripts => tools/doc}/test_doc_build.py (100%)
>
> --
> 2.50.1
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