linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 00/19] Split sphinx call logic from docs Makefile

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Message-ID: <87y0qskhm0.fsf@trenco.lwn.net>
Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2025 10:07:51 -0600
From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
To: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@...nel.org>, Linux Doc Mailing
 List <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@...nel.org>, Mauro Carvalho Chehab
 <mchehab+huawei@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Matthew Wilcox
 <willy@...radead.org>, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 00/19] Split sphinx call logic from docs Makefile

Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@...nel.org> writes:

> This series does a major cleanup at docs Makefile by moving the
> actual doc build logic to a helper script (scripts/sphinx-build-wrapper).
>
> Such script was written in a way that it can be called either
> directly or via a makefile. When running via makefile, it will
> use GNU jobserver to ensure that, when sphinx-build is
> called, the number of jobs will match at most what it is
> specified by the "-j" parameter.

I will try to make another pass over this stuff later today.  I would
really appreciate some more eyes on it, though, and perhaps even some
reports of testing.  This is a significant change, and the presence of
surprised would not be ... surprising ...

Thanks,

jon