Re: [PATCH 00/10] Documentation/Sphinx

[Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>]

On Fri, 03 Jun 2016, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 3 Jun 2016 22:24:03 +0200
> Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> wrote:
>
>> > This is maybe a job for a separate tool.  A related issue is the (fairly
>> > frequent) "oh look, none of the comments in $FILE are being used"
>> > realization that seems to happen fairly often.  It would be nice to check
>> > for that, but that's going to be hard to shoehorn into Sphinx.  
>> 
>> I think much more valuable would be a tool that checks whether
>> comments are pulled in anywhere (for a given source file), over the
>> entire tree. Very often entire subsystems carg-cult kernel-doc, but
>> never use it in a .tmpl, which means 0-day won't notice, and neither
>> anyone else.
>
> That is kind of what I was trying to get at, yes :)

For the 0-day, I've already got a preliminary kernel-doc-rst-lint
script, which can be used as a checker in the kernel build. This would
catch all kernel-doc comments, whether they're included to documentation
or not, and complain about kernel-doc and rst issues. It won't be as
comprehensive as a full Sphinx build in terms of validation, but it'll
cover more kernel-doc comments. It should catch the silly errors early.

BR,
Jani.



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Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Technology Center