docs: Kbuild/Makefile: allow check for missing docs at build time
While this doesn't make sense for production Kernels, in order to
avoid regressions when documents are touched, let's add a
check target at the make file.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
diff --git a/Documentation/Kconfig b/Documentation/Kconfig
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..66046fa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/Kconfig
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+config WARN_MISSING_DOCUMENTS
+
+ bool "Warn if there's a missing documentation file"
+ depends on COMPILE_TEST
+ help
+ It is not uncommon that a document gets renamed.
+ This option makes the Kernel to check for missing dependencies,
+ warning when something is missing. Works only if the Kernel
+ is built from a git tree.
+
+ If unsure, select 'N'.
+
+
diff --git a/Documentation/Makefile b/Documentation/Makefile
index 2df0789..e145e4db 100644
--- a/Documentation/Makefile
+++ b/Documentation/Makefile
@@ -4,6 +4,11 @@
subdir-y := devicetree/bindings/
+# Check for broken documentation file references
+ifeq ($(CONFIG_WARN_MISSING_DOCUMENTS),y)
+$(shell $(srctree)/scripts/documentation-file-ref-check --warn)
+endif
+
# You can set these variables from the command line.
SPHINXBUILD = sphinx-build
SPHINXOPTS =
diff --git a/Kconfig b/Kconfig
index 48a80be..990b0c3 100644
--- a/Kconfig
+++ b/Kconfig
@@ -30,3 +30,5 @@
source "lib/Kconfig"
source "lib/Kconfig.debug"
+
+source "Documentation/Kconfig"
diff --git a/scripts/documentation-file-ref-check b/scripts/documentation-file-ref-check
index ff16db2..440227b 100755
--- a/scripts/documentation-file-ref-check
+++ b/scripts/documentation-file-ref-check
@@ -22,9 +22,16 @@
# Parse arguments
my $help = 0;
my $fix = 0;
+my $warn = 0;
+
+if (! -d ".git") {
+ printf "Warning: can't check if file exists, as this is not a git tree";
+ exit 0;
+}
GetOptions(
'fix' => \$fix,
+ 'warn' => \$warn,
'h|help|usage' => \$help,
);
@@ -139,6 +146,8 @@
if (!($ref =~ m/(scripts|Kconfig|Kbuild)/)) {
$broken_ref{$ref}++;
}
+ } elsif ($warn) {
+ print STDERR "Warning: $f references a file that doesn't exist: $fulref\n";
} else {
print STDERR "$f: $fulref\n";
}
