Bug#1064035: [regression 5.10.y] linux-doc builds: Global symbol "$args" requires explicit package name (did you forget to declare "my $args"?) at ./scripts/kernel-doc line 1236.

2024-03-04 Thread Jonathan Corbet
Salvatore Bonaccorso writes: > Ok. In the sprit of the stable series rules we might try the later and > if it's not feasible pick the first variant? Well, "the spirit of the stable series" is one of Greg's titles, and he said either was good...:) jon

Bug#1064035: [regression 5.10.y] linux-doc builds: Global symbol "$args" requires explicit package name (did you forget to declare "my $args"?) at ./scripts/kernel-doc line 1236.

2024-03-04 Thread Jonathan Corbet
Salvatore Bonaccorso writes: > Hi, > > Ben Hutchings reported in https://bugs.debian.org/1064035 a problem > with the kernel-doc builds once 3080ea5553cc ("stddef: Introduce > DECLARE_FLEX_ARRAY() helper") got applied in 5.10.210 (as > prerequisite of another fix in 5.10.y): > >> The backport of

Bug#905116: [PATCH v2] scripts/kernel-doc: Escape all literal braces in regexes

2018-08-06 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Sun, 5 Aug 2018 17:41:09 +0100 Ben Hutchings wrote: > Commit 720ac2ef479d ("PATCH scripts/kernel-doc") fixed the two > instances of literal braces that Perl 5.28 warns about, but there are > still more than it doesn't warn about. > > Escape all left braces that are treated as literal characte

Bug#905116: [PATCH v2] scripts/kernel-doc: Escape all literal braces in regexes

2018-08-06 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Sun, 5 Aug 2018 17:41:09 +0100 Ben Hutchings wrote: > Commit 720ac2ef479d ("PATCH scripts/kernel-doc") fixed the two > instances of literal braces that Perl 5.28 warns about, but there are > still more than it doesn't warn about. So where can I find this commit of which you speak? I can't fi

Re: [PATCH RESEND] Documentation/sphinx: prevent generation of .pyc files in the source tree

2017-02-01 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Tue, 31 Jan 2017 20:18:05 +0200 Jani Nikula wrote: > Considering the small amount of python code to compile (assuming sphinx > itself has .pyc around), the impact on build is neglible. Hey...don't you know that performance-impacting patches need benchmarks? Sphinx-only htmldocs build before:

Re: Sphinx builds always write to the source directory

2017-01-31 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Tue, 31 Jan 2017 09:32:20 +0200 Jani Nikula wrote: > On Tue, 31 Jan 2017, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > I'm having trouble with the Debian packaging of kernel documentation. > > We try to build everything in a separate output directory (underneath > > debian/build), but the new Sphinx-based build

Re: [PATCH] viafb: Add transitive dependencies via gpiolib

2010-07-19 Thread Jonathan Corbet
[Been on vacation, behind on a number of things...] On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 09:35:49 +1000 Dave Airlie wrote: > > FB_VIA now selects GPIOLIB, but that is not available on all > > architectures.  Change FB_VIA dependencies to include GPIOLIB > > dependencies. > > If you can find a via chipset on a