linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 0/8] Collect documentation-related tools under /tools/docs

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Message-ID: <20251107073452.6213b493@sal.lan>
Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2025 07:34:52 -0300
From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@...nel.org>
To: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
Cc: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@...il.com>, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>, Jani
 Nikula <jani.nikula@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/8] Collect documentation-related tools under
 /tools/docs

Em Mon, 27 Oct 2025 11:04:27 -0600
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net> escreveu:

> Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@...nel.org> writes:
> 
> > Patch is incomplete, as it doesn't drop the logic which forks
> > kernel-doc script run, but see below.  
> 
> So I clearly hadn't fully understood how this works.  Before I went and
> broke things, the logic seemed to be:
> 
>   If the kerneldoc_bin environment variable is "kernel-doc.py"
>   	don't actually run kernel-doc.py, build it internally instead
>   else
>   	run whatever program the variable points to
> 
>   ...
>   set kerneldoc_bin to "kernel-doc.py" by default
> 
> This seems ... a bit obscure. 

Yes, but it was the best alternative I found back then :-)

Regards,
Mauro