Hi Jon,

On Tue, 20 Jan 2026 15:56:48 -0700
Jonathan Corbet <[email protected]> wrote:

> Mauro Carvalho Chehab <[email protected]> writes:
> 
> > Hi Jon,
> >
> > After a restful weekend and revisiting both yours and my series,
> > I'm opting to send a patch series merging both into one:
> >
> > - The first 4 patches are from my series (no changes since v5):
> >     
> > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-doc/[email protected]/T/#m81211c0ff38bbaa82b8b0b6606f242ccc0c2a9ac
> >
> > - It follows by the 2 patches from your renaming series:
> >     
> > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-doc/[email protected]/T/#m51099c31a99dccccdb4d17cbaadc818e9e4df8c4
> >
> >   with the fix I proposed for kernel-doc to find its libraries
> >
> > I added 3 patches afterwards:
> >
> >   - patch 5: move possible return values from docstring to helper message;
> >   - patch 6: improve MsgFormatter description;
> >   - patch 7: moves kerneldoc_bin from conf.py to the sphinx/kerneldoc.py
> >     (this is now just a debugging message - no need to pick it from env)
> >
> > IMO, this series is ready to be merged.  
> 
> Patch 7 adds a new warning:
> 
>   WARNING: unknown config value 'kerneldoc_bin' in override, ignoring
> 
> It needs to be taken out of sphinx-build-wrapper; I've appended the
> following patch to the series to deal with it. 

True, thanks for checking it!

> I think I'll go ahead
> and tack on a patch putting in the scripts/kernel-doc symlink, then I
> guess it's ready to go.

Go ahead. Yeah, I think that, with such changes, this series is
ready to go.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> jon
> 
> From 4a3efd128f7da996b677151790d043ec44a00561 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Jonathan Corbet <[email protected]>
> Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2026 15:50:38 -0700
> Subject: [PATCH] docs: sphinx-build-wrapper: stop setting kerneldoc_bin for
>  Sphinx
> 
> Now that the Sphinx build does not use the kerneldoc_bin configuration
> variable, we shouldn't try to set it in the build wrapper or we get a nifty
> warning:
> 
>   WARNING: unknown config value 'kerneldoc_bin' in override, ignoring
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <[email protected]>

Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <[email protected]>

> ---
>  tools/docs/sphinx-build-wrapper | 1 -
>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/docs/sphinx-build-wrapper b/tools/docs/sphinx-build-wrapper
> index cb2a5005e633..9f1ae1485f84 100755
> --- a/tools/docs/sphinx-build-wrapper
> +++ b/tools/docs/sphinx-build-wrapper
> @@ -750,7 +750,6 @@ class SphinxBuilder:
>  
>              build_args = args + [
>                  "-d", doctree_dir,
> -                "-D", f"kerneldoc_bin={kerneldoc}",
>                  "-D", f"version={self.kernelversion}",
>                  "-D", f"release={self.kernelrelease}",
>                  "-D", f"kerneldoc_srctree={self.srctree}",

Thanks,
Mauro

Reply via email to