Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Hi Jon, > > As promised, this series improves the Sphinx kerneldoc extension making it using the > kernel-doc.py classes directly if available. > > The script still supports excecuting kernel-doc via shell, and, in verbose mode, it will > show the command line arguments to run kernel-doc manually, even when the Python > classes are used. The idea is that the command line verbose will help to eventually > debug issues if one needs to run kernel-doc.py manually. > > On other words, after this series, if one does: > > make htmldocs KERNELDOC=scripts/kernel-doc.py > > Or, simply (as internally KERNELDOC is set to scripts/kernel-doc.py): > > make htmldocs > > It will use the Python classes instead of running a subprocess. > > If one uses, instead: > > make htmldocs KERNELDOC=scripts/kernel-doc > or: > make htmldocs KERNELDOC=scripts/kernel-doc.pl > > As the file extension doesn't end with .py, it will excecute the Python or the Perl > version of kernel-doc via a subprocess. > > On this version, I opted to re-create the Python objects for every single kernel-doc > line, so no caches from past runs are used. I'm working on a version that will cache > results, but it is currently causing some regressions. So, let's do the changes > step-by-step, applying first this improvement patch series. > > PS.: the first patches on this series are addressing some some bugs and one > improvement that I noticed while debugging the patch changing kerneldoc > Sphinx extension. > > Mauro Carvalho Chehab (4): > scripts/lib/kdoc/kdoc_files.py: don't try to join None > scripts/lib/kdoc/kdoc_parser.py: move states to a separate class > scripts:kdoc_files.py: use glob for export_file seek > docs: sphinx: kerneldoc: Use python class if available > > Documentation/sphinx/kerneldoc.py | 138 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- > scripts/lib/kdoc/kdoc_files.py | 11 ++- > scripts/lib/kdoc/kdoc_parser.py | 119 ++++++++++++++------------ > 3 files changed, 200 insertions(+), 68 deletions(-) I've applied the series. I do note that the default "make htmldocs" build time is reliably slower than with KERNELDOC=scripts/kernel-doc, I'd be curious to understand why. External kdoc: 170s w/classes: 186s jon