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authorMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>2025-09-18 13:54:53 +0200
committerJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>2025-09-18 11:19:57 -0600
commit7e8a8143ecc3940dbc3664b24b132ec7420d1053 (patch)
tree128af5b52bc058bc53695c11f559f9c1daf1c766 /scripts
parent0d9abc7627f5aeaaa8db6e856d800819cc9d85b1 (diff)
docs: add support to build manpages from kerneldoc output
Generating man files currently requires running a separate script. The target also doesn't appear at the docs Makefile. Add support for mandocs at the Makefile, adding the build logic inside sphinx-build-wrapper, updating documentation and dropping the ancillary script. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Message-ID: <3d248d724e7f3154f6e3a227e5923d7360201de9.1758196090.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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-rwxr-xr-xscripts/split-man.pl28
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 28 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/split-man.pl b/scripts/split-man.pl
deleted file mode 100755
index 96bd99dc977a..000000000000
--- a/scripts/split-man.pl
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,28 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env perl
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
-#
-# Author: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
-#
-# Produce manpages from kernel-doc.
-# See Documentation/doc-guide/kernel-doc.rst for instructions
-
-if ($#ARGV < 0) {
- die "where do I put the results?\n";
-}
-
-mkdir $ARGV[0],0777;
-$state = 0;
-while (<STDIN>) {
- if (/^\.TH \"[^\"]*\" 9 \"([^\"]*)\"/) {
- if ($state == 1) { close OUT }
- $state = 1;
- $fn = "$ARGV[0]/$1.9";
- print STDERR "Creating $fn\n";
- open OUT, ">$fn" or die "can't open $fn: $!\n";
- print OUT $_;
- } elsif ($state != 0) {
- print OUT $_;
- }
-}
-
-close OUT;