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scripts/kernel-doc: Override -Werror from KCFLAGS with KDOC_WERROR
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Since commit 2c12c81 ("scripts/kernel-doc: optionally treat
warnings as errors"), the kernel-doc script will treat warnings as
errors when one of the following conditions is true:

- The KDOC_WERROR environment variable is non-zero
- The KCFLAGS environment variable contains -Werror
- The -Werror parameter is passed to kernel-doc

Checking KCFLAGS for -Werror allows piggy-backing on the C compiler
error handling. However, unlike the C compiler, kernel-doc has no
provision for -Wno-error. This makes compiling the kernel with -Werror
(to catch regressions) and W=1 (to enable more checks) always fail,
without the same possibility as offered by the C compiler to treating
some selected warnings as warnings despite the global -Werror setting.

To fix this, evaluate KDOC_WERROR after KCFLAGS, which allows disabling
the warnings-as-errors behaviour of kernel-doc selectively by setting
KDOC_WERROR=0.

Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart+renesas@ideasonboard.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210730225401.4401-1-laurent.pinchart+renesas@ideasonboard.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Laurent Pinchart authored and Jonathan Corbet committed Aug 12, 2021
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Expand Up @@ -329,10 +329,6 @@ if (defined($ENV{'KBUILD_VERBOSE'})) {
$verbose = "$ENV{'KBUILD_VERBOSE'}";
}

if (defined($ENV{'KDOC_WERROR'})) {
$Werror = "$ENV{'KDOC_WERROR'}";
}

if (defined($ENV{'KCFLAGS'})) {
my $kcflags = "$ENV{'KCFLAGS'}";

Expand All @@ -341,6 +337,10 @@ if (defined($ENV{'KCFLAGS'})) {
}
}

if (defined($ENV{'KDOC_WERROR'})) {
$Werror = "$ENV{'KDOC_WERROR'}";
}

# Generated docbook code is inserted in a template at a point where
# docbook v3.1 requires a non-zero sequence of RefEntry's; see:
# https://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/documentation/reference/html/refentry.html
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