linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/1] docs: makefile: move rustdoc check to the build wrapper

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Message-ID: <20251118201152.038e2749@foz.lan>
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 20:11:52 +0100
From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@...nel.org>
To: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
Cc: Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@...il.com>, Linux Doc Mailing List
 <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>, Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@...il.com>, Alice
 Ryhl <aliceryhl@...gle.com>, Andreas Hindborg <a.hindborg@...nel.org>,
 Benno Lossin <lossin@...nel.org>, Björn Roy Baron
 <bjorn3_gh@...tonmail.com>, Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@...il.com>, Danilo
 Krummrich <dakr@...nel.org>, Gary Guo <gary@...yguo.net>, Mauro Carvalho
 Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>, Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@...nel.org>, Trevor Gross
 <tmgross@...ch.edu>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
 rust-for-linux@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] docs: makefile: move rustdoc check to the build
 wrapper

Em Tue, 18 Nov 2025 09:38:15 -0700
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net> escreveu:

> Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@...nel.org> writes:
> 
> > On Mon, Nov 17, 2025 at 10:20:46AM +0100, Miguel Ojeda wrote:  
> >> On Mon, Nov 17, 2025 at 10:13 AM Mauro Carvalho Chehab
> >> <mchehab+huawei@...nel.org> wrote:  
> >> >
> >> > The makefile logic to detect if rust is enabled is not working
> >> > the way it was expected. Move it to be inside the wrapper
> >> > script.  
> >> 
> >> Hmm... Could the commit explain a bit why this didn't work and why now it does?  
> >
> > I don't know exactly why this was not working.  
> 
> I would feel a lot better if we knew what the real problem is before
> applying fixes for it.  Otherwise something seems certain to come and
> bite us at some point.

Me too, but the bug is very annoying ;-)

I'll try to seek for some time to better understand it, maybe
next week.

Thanks,
Mauro