Re: [PATCH] kernel-doc: set verbose mode via environment

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 17:53:58 -0800 Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> wrote:

> From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
> 
> Allow setting environment variable "KERNEL_DOC_VERBOSE=1" to enable
> verbose mode in scripts/kernel-doc.  Useful for getting more
> info and warnings from kernel-doc.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
> ---
>  scripts/kernel-doc |    4 ++++
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> 
> --- linux-2.6.25-rc3.orig/scripts/kernel-doc
> +++ linux-2.6.25-rc3/scripts/kernel-doc
> @@ -247,6 +247,10 @@ my ($function, %function_table,%paramete
>  my ($type,$declaration_name,$return_type);
>  my ($newsection,$newcontents,$prototype,$filelist, $brcount, %source_map);
>  
> +if (defined($ENV{'KERNEL_DOC_VERBOSE'})) {
> +	$verbose = "$ENV{'KERNEL_DOC_VERBOSE'}";
> +}
> +
>  # Generated docbook code is inserted in a template at a point where
>  # docbook v3.1 requires a non-zero sequence of RefEntry's; see:
>  # http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/documentation/reference/html/refentry.html

Shouldn't this be, err, documented somewhere?

I'd have expected to obtain this functionality by running `make V=1 foodocs'?