Re: [PATCH 0/1] Sync kernel-doc.py with Linux upstream

["Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Tue, Jan 06, 2026 at 05:38:18PM +0100, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> Hi Peter/John,
> 
> There were several updates at kernel-doc upstream fixing bugs,
> doing cleanups and a couple of improvements.
> 
> Better to keep QEMU in sync with such changes.
> 
> Worth mentioning that we did some changes on Linux at the
> kernel-doc.py script itself, to avoid Kernel build to crash
> with too old Python versions, as there docs build is a
> separate target, and python >= 3.6 is a new requirement
> there.
> 
> On kernel, if python < 3.6, it will simply ignore docs
> build (emitting a warning).
> 
> I opted to not backport such changes, but if you prefer
> doing that, I can do that on a v2.

QEMU mandates Python >= 3.9 (enforced by 'configure'), so there's no need
to worry about anything older than that.


With regards,
Daniel
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