linux-kernel - Re: [REGRESSION] Unexpected section title false positive warnings on DOC: directive

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Message-ID: <aV5a6PCVrkRHwqt3@archie.me>
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2026 20:08:56 +0700
From: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@...il.com>
To: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Documentation <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Regressions <regressions@...ts.linux.dev>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@...nel.org>,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [REGRESSION] Unexpected section title false positive warnings on
 DOC: directive

On Tue, Jan 06, 2026 at 02:58:43PM -0700, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@...il.com> writes:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > Building htmldocs on docs-next currenly produces about 50 new warnings; which
> > all of them are unexpected section title on DOC: kernel-doc directive, like:
> >
> > /home/bagas/repo/linux-kernel/Documentation/driver-api/target:25: ./drivers/target/target_core_user.c:35: CRITICAL: Unexpected section title.
> >
> > Userspace I/O
> > ------------- [docutils]
> > WARNING: kernel-doc 'scripts/kernel-doc.py -rst -enable-lineno -function 'Userspace I/O' ./drivers/target/target_core_user.c' processing failed with: SystemMessage('/home/bagas/repo/linux-kernel/Documentation/driver-api/target:25: ./drivers/target/target_core_user.c:35: (SEVERE/4) Unexpected section title.\n\nUserspace I/O\n-------------')
> > /home/bagas/repo/linux-kernel/Documentation/driver-api/target:28: ./include/uapi/linux/target_core_user.h:14: CRITICAL: Unexpected section title.
> 
> So I did not, and do not, see any of these errors; are you doing
> something special to get them?

Nope.

I'm running my htmldocs builds on my Arch Linux system (with Sphinx 9.0.4 and
Python 3.13.11).

Full log (tarred up) attached.

Thanks.

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