Re: [PATCH v2] scripts/kernel-doc: Adding cross-reference links to html documentation.

[Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>]

On Fri, 26 Jun 2015 12:08:57 -0300
Danilo Cesar Lemes de Paula <danilo.cesar@collabora.co.uk> wrote:

> To ease the navigation in the documentation we should use <links> inside
> those tags so readers can easily jump between methods directly.
> 
> This was discussed in 2014[1] and is implemented by getting a list
> of <refentries> from the DocBook XML to generate a database. Then it looks
> for <function>,<structnames> and <paramdef> tags that matches the ones in
> the database. As it only links existent references, no broken links are
> added.

So I put a lot more time into this today than I really had available.  I
think it's cool stuff, and we definitely want it.  But can I ask for one
more pass?  In particular:

 - It makes the docs build a lot more noisy, that would be nice to fix.

 - A bit more documentation in the script would be nice.  It also is happy
   to run with silly arguments; a detail since nobody will run it
   directly, but still...

 - Most importantly, it breaks "make htmldocs"; in particular, vast
   amounts of error spew results when it gets around to media_api.html.  I
   spent a while trying to figure out what was going on but didn't come up
   with anything conclusive; my suspicion is that it has to do with the
   separate makefile in Documentation/DocBook/media/.

Thanks,

jon