From: Bhanu Seshu Kumar Valluri <bhanuseshukumar@gmail.com>
To: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, khalid@kernel.org,
linux-kernel-mentees@lists.linuxfoundation.org,
skhan@linuxfoundation.org, david.hunter.linux@gmail.com,
bhanuseshukumar@gmail.com
Subject: [PATCH v2] docs: Makefile: Sort Documentation targets case-insensitively in make help
Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2025 11:47:23 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251104061723.16629-1-bhanuseshukumar@gmail.com> (raw)
Avoid case-sensitive sorting when listing Documentation targets in make help.
Previously, targets like PCI and RCU appeared ahead of others due to uppercase
names.
Normalize casing during _SPHINXDIRS generation to ensure consistent and
intuitive ordering.
Fixes: 965fc39f7393 ("Documentation: sort _SPHINXDIRS for 'make help'")
Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Bhanu Seshu Kumar Valluri <bhanuseshukumar@gmail.com>
---
V1-V2 changes
- Rebased on to commit 27600b51fbc8 ("MAINTAINERS: extend DOCUMENTATION SCRIPTS to the full directories")
in docs-next.
- Link to V1: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20251015012922.19467-1-bhanuseshukumar@gmail.com/
Documentation/Makefile | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/Makefile b/Documentation/Makefile
index 734ec9c9a..d514ab676 100644
--- a/Documentation/Makefile
+++ b/Documentation/Makefile
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ cleandocs:
$(Q)rm -rf $(BUILDDIR)
# Used only on help
-_SPHINXDIRS = $(sort $(patsubst $(srctree)/Documentation/%/index.rst,%,$(wildcard $(srctree)/Documentation/*/index.rst)))
+_SPHINXDIRS = $(shell printf "%s\n" $(patsubst $(srctree)/Documentation/%/index.rst,%,$(wildcard $(srctree)/Documentation/*/index.rst)) | sort -f)
dochelp:
@echo ' Linux kernel internal documentation in different formats from ReST:'
--
2.34.1
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