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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
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treef533575dc747e428fe9bb403f299b0f39da7b75a /scripts/kernel-doc.py
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>
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-#!/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 = "../tools/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()