[PATCH v2] scripts/kernel-doc: Adding cross-reference links to html documentation.

[Danilo Cesar Lemes de Paula]

On 07/09/2015 08:56 PM, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Jun 2015 12:08:57 -0300
> Danilo Cesar Lemes de Paula <danilo.cesar at collabora.co.uk> wrote:
> 
>> To ease the navigation in the documentation we should use <links> inside
>> those tags so readers can easily jump between methods directly.
>>
>> This was discussed in 2014[1] and is implemented by getting a list
>> of <refentries> from the DocBook XML to generate a database. Then it looks
>> for <function>,<structnames> and <paramdef> tags that matches the ones in
>> the database. As it only links existent references, no broken links are
>> added.
> 
> So I put a lot more time into this today than I really had available.  I

Thanks, I really appreciate that.

> think it's cool stuff, and we definitely want it.  But can I ask for one
> more pass?  In particular:
> 
>  - It makes the docs build a lot more noisy, that would be nice to fix.

Fair enough. It was showing all the commands. I did change that to a
fancy "XMLREF  Documentation/DocBook/FooBar.xml" message.

> 
>  - A bit more documentation in the script would be nice.  It also is happy
>    to run with silly arguments; a detail since nobody will run it
>    directly, but still...

I did improve the documentation and also fixed the silly argument thing.

> 
>  - Most importantly, it breaks "make htmldocs"; in particular, vast
>    amounts of error spew results when it gets around to media_api.html.  I
>    spent a while trying to figure out what was going on but didn't come up
>    with anything conclusive; my suspicion is that it has to do with the
>    separate makefile in Documentation/DocBook/media/.

I'm not sure about this.
media-api is spitting lots of warnings with or without the documentation
patch.
I compared the number of files and they're the same (excepting those
auxiliary db files). For me, both builds actually spits 2825 lines on
STDERR...

I also did a smoke check in the media-api html documentation and it
looks fine.

Would you mind to check again if it happens with the v3 of my patch I'm
sending next?

Danilo
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> jon
>