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

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Message-ID: <aV7wTFqQQkGf4efF@archie.me>
Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2026 06:46:20 +0700
From: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@...il.com>
To: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>, 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>
Subject: Re: [REGRESSION] Unexpected section title false positive warnings on
 DOC: directive

On Wed, Jan 07, 2026 at 10:19:32AM -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> 
> 
> On 1/7/26 5:08 AM, Bagas Sanjaya wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Hi,
> What docutils version, please?

Mine have:

docutils (Docutils 0.21.2, Python 3.13.11, on linux)

Thanks.

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