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authorJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>2026-01-19 13:05:01 +0100
committerJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>2026-01-20 15:31:06 -0700
commiteba6ffd126cd52358181ed5a179644a161f9c65f (patch)
treef533575dc747e428fe9bb403f299b0f39da7b75a /tools/docs
parent24f984aa117f376b237e7b78a760dbda20383a0d (diff)
docs: kdoc: move kernel-doc to tools/docs
kernel-doc is the last documentation-related tool still living outside of the tools/docs directory; the time has come to move it over. [mchehab: fixed kdoc lib location] Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <311d17e403524349940a8b12de6b5e91e554b1f4.1768823489.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/docs')
-rwxr-xr-xtools/docs/find-unused-docs.sh2
-rwxr-xr-xtools/docs/kernel-doc360
-rwxr-xr-xtools/docs/sphinx-build-wrapper2
3 files changed, 362 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/tools/docs/find-unused-docs.sh b/tools/docs/find-unused-docs.sh
index ca4e607ec3f7..53514c759dc1 100755
--- a/tools/docs/find-unused-docs.sh
+++ b/tools/docs/find-unused-docs.sh
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ for file in `find $1 -name '*.c'`; do
if [[ ${FILES_INCLUDED[$file]+_} ]]; then
continue;
fi
- str=$(PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE=1 scripts/kernel-doc -export "$file" 2>/dev/null)
+ str=$(PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE=1 tools/docs/kernel-doc -export "$file" 2>/dev/null)
if [[ -n "$str" ]]; then
echo "$file"
fi
diff --git a/tools/docs/kernel-doc b/tools/docs/kernel-doc
new file mode 100755
index 000000000000..a19a92566780
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/docs/kernel-doc
@@ -0,0 +1,360 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+# Copyright(c) 2025: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>.
+#
+# pylint: disable=C0103,R0912,R0914,R0915
+#
+# NOTE: While kernel-doc requires at least version 3.6 to run, the
+# command line should work with Python 3.2+ (tested with 3.4).
+# The rationale is that it shall fail gracefully during Kernel
+# compilation with older Kernel versions. Due to that:
+# - encoding line is needed here;
+# - f-strings cannot be used in this file.
+# - libraries that require newer versions can only be included
+# after the Python version has been checked.
+#
+# Converted from the kernel-doc script originally written in Perl
+# under GPLv2, copyrighted since 1998 by the following authors:
+#
+# Aditya Srivastava <yashsri421@gmail.com>
+# Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com>
+# Alexander A. Klimov <grandmaster@al2klimov.de>
+# Alexander Lobakin <aleksander.lobakin@intel.com>
+# André Almeida <andrealmeid@igalia.com>
+# Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
+# Anna-Maria Behnsen <anna-maria@linutronix.de>
+# Armin Kuster <akuster@mvista.com>
+# Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@sandisk.com>
+# Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
+# Borislav Petkov <bbpetkov@yahoo.de>
+# Chen-Yu Tsai <wenst@chromium.org>
+# Coco Li <lixiaoyan@google.com>
+# Conchúr Navid <conchur@web.de>
+# Daniel Santos <daniel.santos@pobox.com>
+# Danilo Cesar Lemes de Paula <danilo.cesar@collabora.co.uk>
+# Dan Luedtke <mail@danrl.de>
+# Donald Hunter <donald.hunter@gmail.com>
+# Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@collabora.co.uk>
+# Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
+# Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
+# Horia Geanta <horia.geanta@freescale.com>
+# Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@gmail.com>
+# Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
+# Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
+# Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
+# Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
+# Jérémy Bobbio <lunar@debian.org>
+# Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
+# Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
+# Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>
+# Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
+# Jonathan Neuschäfer <j.neuschaefer@gmx.net>
+# Kamil Rytarowski <n54@gmx.com>
+# Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
+# Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
+# Levin, Alexander (Sasha Levin) <alexander.levin@verizon.com>
+# Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
+# Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
+# Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
+# Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@darmarit.de>
+# Martin Waitz <tali@admingilde.org>
+# Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
+# Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
+# Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
+# Michal Wajdeczko <michal.wajdeczko@intel.com>
+# Michael Zucchi
+# Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
+# Niklas Söderlund <niklas.soderlund@corigine.com>
+# Nishanth Menon <nm@ti.com>
+# Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
+# Pavan Kumar Linga <pavan.kumar.linga@intel.com>
+# Pavel Pisa <pisa@cmp.felk.cvut.cz>
+# Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
+# Pierre-Louis Bossart <pierre-louis.bossart@linux.intel.com>
+# Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
+# Richard Kennedy <richard@rsk.demon.co.uk>
+# Rich Walker <rw@shadow.org.uk>
+# Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de>
+# Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com>
+# Silvio Fricke <silvio.fricke@gmail.com>
+# Simon Huggins
+# Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com>
+# Tomasz Warniełło <tomasz.warniello@gmail.com>
+# Utkarsh Tripathi <utripathi2002@gmail.com>
+# valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu>
+# Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com>
+# Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
+# Yacine Belkadi <yacine.belkadi.1@gmail.com>
+# Yujie Liu <yujie.liu@intel.com>
+
+"""
+Print formatted kernel documentation to stdout.
+
+Read C language source or header FILEs, extract embedded
+documentation comments, and print formatted documentation
+to standard output.
+
+The documentation comments are identified by the ``/**``
+opening comment mark.
+
+See Documentation/doc-guide/kernel-doc.rst for the
+documentation comment syntax.
+"""
+
+import argparse
+import logging
+import os
+import sys
+
+# Import Python modules
+
+LIB_DIR = "../lib/python"
+SRC_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__))
+
+sys.path.insert(0, os.path.join(SRC_DIR, LIB_DIR))
+
+WERROR_RETURN_CODE = 3
+
+DESC = """
+Read C language source or header FILEs, extract embedded documentation comments,
+and print formatted documentation to standard output.
+
+The documentation comments are identified by the "/**" opening comment mark.
+
+See Documentation/doc-guide/kernel-doc.rst for the documentation comment syntax.
+"""
+
+EXPORT_FILE_DESC = """
+Specify an additional FILE in which to look for EXPORT_SYMBOL information.
+
+May be used multiple times.
+"""
+
+EXPORT_DESC = """
+Only output documentation for symbols that have been
+exported using EXPORT_SYMBOL() and related macros in any input
+FILE or -export-file FILE.
+"""
+
+INTERNAL_DESC = """
+Only output documentation for symbols that have NOT been
+exported using EXPORT_SYMBOL() and related macros in any input
+FILE or -export-file FILE.
+"""
+
+FUNCTION_DESC = """
+Only output documentation for the given function or DOC: section
+title. All other functions and DOC: sections are ignored.
+
+May be used multiple times.
+"""
+
+NOSYMBOL_DESC = """
+Exclude the specified symbol from the output documentation.
+
+May be used multiple times.
+"""
+
+FILES_DESC = """
+Header and C source files to be parsed.
+"""
+
+WARN_CONTENTS_BEFORE_SECTIONS_DESC = """
+Warn if there are contents before sections (deprecated).
+
+This option is kept just for backward-compatibility, but it does nothing,
+neither here nor at the original Perl script.
+"""
+
+
+class MsgFormatter(logging.Formatter):
+ """Helper class to format warnings in a similar way to kernel-doc.pl."""
+
+ def format(self, record):
+ record.levelname = record.levelname.capitalize()
+ return logging.Formatter.format(self, record)
+
+def main():
+ """
+ Main program.
+
+ By default, the return value is:
+
+ - 0: success or Python version is not compatible with
+ kernel-doc. If -Werror is not used, it will also
+ return 0 if there are issues at kernel-doc markups;
+
+ - 1: an abnormal condition happened;
+
+ - 2: argparse issued an error;
+
+ - 3: -Werror is used, and one or more unfiltered parse warnings happened.
+ """
+
+ parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(formatter_class=argparse.RawTextHelpFormatter,
+ description=DESC)
+
+ #
+ # Normal arguments
+ #
+ parser.add_argument("-v", "-verbose", "--verbose", action="store_true",
+ help="Verbose output, more warnings and other information.")
+
+ parser.add_argument("-d", "-debug", "--debug", action="store_true",
+ help="Enable debug messages")
+
+ parser.add_argument("-M", "-modulename", "--modulename",
+ default="Kernel API",
+ help="Allow setting a module name at the output.")
+
+ parser.add_argument("-l", "-enable-lineno", "--enable_lineno",
+ action="store_true",
+ help="Enable line number output (only in ReST mode)")
+
+ #
+ # Arguments to control the warning behavior
+ #
+ parser.add_argument("-Wreturn", "--wreturn", action="store_true",
+ help="Warns about the lack of a return markup on functions.")
+
+ parser.add_argument("-Wshort-desc", "-Wshort-description", "--wshort-desc",
+ action="store_true",
+ help="Warns if initial short description is missing")
+
+ parser.add_argument("-Wcontents-before-sections",
+ "--wcontents-before-sections", action="store_true",
+ help=WARN_CONTENTS_BEFORE_SECTIONS_DESC)
+
+ parser.add_argument("-Wall", "--wall", action="store_true",
+ help="Enable all types of warnings")
+
+ parser.add_argument("-Werror", "--werror", action="store_true",
+ help="Treat warnings as errors.")
+
+ parser.add_argument("-export-file", "--export-file", action='append',
+ help=EXPORT_FILE_DESC)
+
+ #
+ # Output format mutually-exclusive group
+ #
+ out_group = parser.add_argument_group("Output format selection (mutually exclusive)")
+
+ out_fmt = out_group.add_mutually_exclusive_group()
+
+ out_fmt.add_argument("-m", "-man", "--man", action="store_true",
+ help="Output troff manual page format.")
+ out_fmt.add_argument("-r", "-rst", "--rst", action="store_true",
+ help="Output reStructuredText format (default).")
+ out_fmt.add_argument("-N", "-none", "--none", action="store_true",
+ help="Do not output documentation, only warnings.")
+
+ #
+ # Output selection mutually-exclusive group
+ #
+ sel_group = parser.add_argument_group("Output selection (mutually exclusive)")
+ sel_mut = sel_group.add_mutually_exclusive_group()
+
+ sel_mut.add_argument("-e", "-export", "--export", action='store_true',
+ help=EXPORT_DESC)
+
+ sel_mut.add_argument("-i", "-internal", "--internal", action='store_true',
+ help=INTERNAL_DESC)
+
+ sel_mut.add_argument("-s", "-function", "--symbol", action='append',
+ help=FUNCTION_DESC)
+
+ #
+ # Those are valid for all 3 types of filter
+ #
+ parser.add_argument("-n", "-nosymbol", "--nosymbol", action='append',
+ help=NOSYMBOL_DESC)
+
+ parser.add_argument("-D", "-no-doc-sections", "--no-doc-sections",
+ action='store_true', help="Don't output DOC sections")
+
+ parser.add_argument("files", metavar="FILE",
+ nargs="+", help=FILES_DESC)
+
+ args = parser.parse_args()
+
+ if args.wall:
+ args.wreturn = True
+ args.wshort_desc = True
+ args.wcontents_before_sections = True
+
+ logger = logging.getLogger()
+
+ if not args.debug:
+ logger.setLevel(logging.INFO)
+ else:
+ logger.setLevel(logging.DEBUG)
+
+ formatter = MsgFormatter('%(levelname)s: %(message)s')
+
+ handler = logging.StreamHandler()
+ handler.setFormatter(formatter)
+
+ logger.addHandler(handler)
+
+ python_ver = sys.version_info[:2]
+ if python_ver < (3,6):
+ #
+ # Depending on the Kernel configuration, kernel-doc --none is called at
+ # build time. As we don't want to break compilation due to the
+ # usage of an old Python version, return 0 here.
+ #
+ if args.none:
+ logger.error("Python 3.6 or later is required by kernel-doc. Skipping checks")
+ sys.exit(0)
+
+ sys.exit("Python 3.6 or later is required by kernel-doc. Aborting.")
+
+ if python_ver < (3,7):
+ logger.warning("Python 3.7 or later is required for correct results")
+
+ #
+ # Import kernel-doc libraries only after checking the Python version
+ #
+ from kdoc.kdoc_files import KernelFiles # pylint: disable=C0415
+ from kdoc.kdoc_output import RestFormat, ManFormat # pylint: disable=C0415
+
+ if args.man:
+ out_style = ManFormat(modulename=args.modulename)
+ elif args.none:
+ out_style = None
+ else:
+ out_style = RestFormat()
+
+ kfiles = KernelFiles(verbose=args.verbose,
+ out_style=out_style, werror=args.werror,
+ wreturn=args.wreturn, wshort_desc=args.wshort_desc,
+ wcontents_before_sections=args.wcontents_before_sections)
+
+ kfiles.parse(args.files, export_file=args.export_file)
+
+ for t in kfiles.msg(enable_lineno=args.enable_lineno, export=args.export,
+ internal=args.internal, symbol=args.symbol,
+ nosymbol=args.nosymbol, export_file=args.export_file,
+ no_doc_sections=args.no_doc_sections):
+ msg = t[1]
+ if msg:
+ print(msg)
+
+ error_count = kfiles.errors
+ if not error_count:
+ sys.exit(0)
+
+ if args.werror:
+ print("%s warnings as errors" % error_count) # pylint: disable=C0209
+ sys.exit(WERROR_RETURN_CODE)
+
+ if args.verbose:
+ print("%s errors" % error_count) # pylint: disable=C0209
+
+ sys.exit(0)
+
+#
+# Call main method
+#
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+ main()
diff --git a/tools/docs/sphinx-build-wrapper b/tools/docs/sphinx-build-wrapper
index 7a5fcef25429..cb2a5005e633 100755
--- a/tools/docs/sphinx-build-wrapper
+++ b/tools/docs/sphinx-build-wrapper
@@ -246,7 +246,7 @@ class SphinxBuilder:
#
self.sphinxbuild = os.environ.get("SPHINXBUILD", "sphinx-build")
self.kerneldoc = self.get_path(os.environ.get("KERNELDOC",
- "scripts/kernel-doc.py"))
+ "tools/docs/kernel-doc"))
self.builddir = self.get_path(builddir, use_cwd=True, abs_path=True)
#