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1#!/usr/bin/env python3
2# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
3# Copyright(c) 2025: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>.
4#
5# pylint: disable=C0103,R0915
6#
7# Converted from the kernel-doc script originally written in Perl
8# under GPLv2, copyrighted since 1998 by the following authors:
9#
10# Aditya Srivastava <yashsri421@gmail.com>
11# Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com>
12# Alexander A. Klimov <grandmaster@al2klimov.de>
13# Alexander Lobakin <aleksander.lobakin@intel.com>
14# André Almeida <andrealmeid@igalia.com>
15# Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
16# Anna-Maria Behnsen <anna-maria@linutronix.de>
17# Armin Kuster <akuster@mvista.com>
18# Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@sandisk.com>
19# Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
20# Borislav Petkov <bbpetkov@yahoo.de>
21# Chen-Yu Tsai <wenst@chromium.org>
22# Coco Li <lixiaoyan@google.com>
23# Conchúr Navid <conchur@web.de>
24# Daniel Santos <daniel.santos@pobox.com>
25# Danilo Cesar Lemes de Paula <danilo.cesar@collabora.co.uk>
26# Dan Luedtke <mail@danrl.de>
27# Donald Hunter <donald.hunter@gmail.com>
28# Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@collabora.co.uk>
29# Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
30# Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
31# Horia Geanta <horia.geanta@freescale.com>
32# Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@gmail.com>
33# Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
34# Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
35# Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
36# Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
37# Jérémy Bobbio <lunar@debian.org>
38# Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
39# Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
40# Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>
41# Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
42# Jonathan Neuschäfer <j.neuschaefer@gmx.net>
43# Kamil Rytarowski <n54@gmx.com>
44# Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
45# Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
46# Levin, Alexander (Sasha Levin) <alexander.levin@verizon.com>
47# Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
48# Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
49# Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
50# Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@darmarit.de>
51# Martin Waitz <tali@admingilde.org>
52# Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
53# Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
54# Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
55# Michal Wajdeczko <michal.wajdeczko@intel.com>
56# Michael Zucchi
57# Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
58# Niklas Söderlund <niklas.soderlund@corigine.com>
59# Nishanth Menon <nm@ti.com>
60# Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
61# Pavan Kumar Linga <pavan.kumar.linga@intel.com>
62# Pavel Pisa <pisa@cmp.felk.cvut.cz>
63# Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
64# Pierre-Louis Bossart <pierre-louis.bossart@linux.intel.com>
65# Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
66# Richard Kennedy <richard@rsk.demon.co.uk>
67# Rich Walker <rw@shadow.org.uk>
68# Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de>
69# Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com>
70# Silvio Fricke <silvio.fricke@gmail.com>
71# Simon Huggins
72# Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com>
73# Tomasz Warniełło <tomasz.warniello@gmail.com>
74# Utkarsh Tripathi <utripathi2002@gmail.com>
75# valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu>
76# Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com>
77# Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
78# Yacine Belkadi <yacine.belkadi.1@gmail.com>
79# Yujie Liu <yujie.liu@intel.com>
80
81"""
82kernel_doc
83==========
84
85Print formatted kernel documentation to stdout
86
87Read C language source or header FILEs, extract embedded
88documentation comments, and print formatted documentation
89to standard output.
90
91The documentation comments are identified by the "/**"
92opening comment mark.
93
94See Documentation/doc-guide/kernel-doc.rst for the
95documentation comment syntax.
96"""
97
98import argparse
99import logging
100import os
101import sys
102
103# Import Python modules
104
105LIB_DIR = "lib/kdoc"
106SRC_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__))
107
108sys.path.insert(0, os.path.join(SRC_DIR, LIB_DIR))
109
110from kdoc_files import KernelFiles # pylint: disable=C0413
111from kdoc_output import RestFormat, ManFormat # pylint: disable=C0413
112
113DESC = """
114Read C language source or header FILEs, extract embedded documentation comments,
115and print formatted documentation to standard output.
116
117The documentation comments are identified by the "/**" opening comment mark.
118
119See Documentation/doc-guide/kernel-doc.rst for the documentation comment syntax.
120"""
121
122EXPORT_FILE_DESC = """
123Specify an additional FILE in which to look for EXPORT_SYMBOL information.
124
125May be used multiple times.
126"""
127
128EXPORT_DESC = """
129Only output documentation for the symbols that have been
130exported using EXPORT_SYMBOL() and related macros in any input
131FILE or -export-file FILE.
132"""
133
134INTERNAL_DESC = """
135Only output documentation for the symbols that have NOT been
136exported using EXPORT_SYMBOL() and related macros in any input
137FILE or -export-file FILE.
138"""
139
140FUNCTION_DESC = """
141Only output documentation for the given function or DOC: section
142title. All other functions and DOC: sections are ignored.
143
144May be used multiple times.
145"""
146
147NOSYMBOL_DESC = """
148Exclude the specified symbol from the output documentation.
149
150May be used multiple times.
151"""
152
153FILES_DESC = """
154Header and C source files to be parsed.
155"""
156
157WARN_CONTENTS_BEFORE_SECTIONS_DESC = """
158Warns if there are contents before sections (deprecated).
159
160This option is kept just for backward-compatibility, but it does nothing,
161neither here nor at the original Perl script.
162"""
163
164
165class MsgFormatter(logging.Formatter):
166 """Helper class to format warnings on a similar way to kernel-doc.pl"""
167
168 def format(self, record):
169 record.levelname = record.levelname.capitalize()
170 return logging.Formatter.format(self, record)
171
172def main():
173 """Main program"""
174
175 parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(formatter_class=argparse.RawTextHelpFormatter,
176 description=DESC)
177
178 # Normal arguments
179
180 parser.add_argument("-v", "-verbose", "--verbose", action="store_true",
181 help="Verbose output, more warnings and other information.")
182
183 parser.add_argument("-d", "-debug", "--debug", action="store_true",
184 help="Enable debug messages")
185
186 parser.add_argument("-M", "-modulename", "--modulename",
187 default="Kernel API",
188 help="Allow setting a module name at the output.")
189
190 parser.add_argument("-l", "-enable-lineno", "--enable_lineno",
191 action="store_true",
192 help="Enable line number output (only in ReST mode)")
193
194 # Arguments to control the warning behavior
195
196 parser.add_argument("-Wreturn", "--wreturn", action="store_true",
197 help="Warns about the lack of a return markup on functions.")
198
199 parser.add_argument("-Wshort-desc", "-Wshort-description", "--wshort-desc",
200 action="store_true",
201 help="Warns if initial short description is missing")
202
203 parser.add_argument("-Wcontents-before-sections",
204 "--wcontents-before-sections", action="store_true",
205 help=WARN_CONTENTS_BEFORE_SECTIONS_DESC)
206
207 parser.add_argument("-Wall", "--wall", action="store_true",
208 help="Enable all types of warnings")
209
210 parser.add_argument("-Werror", "--werror", action="store_true",
211 help="Treat warnings as errors.")
212
213 parser.add_argument("-export-file", "--export-file", action='append',
214 help=EXPORT_FILE_DESC)
215
216 # Output format mutually-exclusive group
217
218 out_group = parser.add_argument_group("Output format selection (mutually exclusive)")
219
220 out_fmt = out_group.add_mutually_exclusive_group()
221
222 out_fmt.add_argument("-m", "-man", "--man", action="store_true",
223 help="Output troff manual page format.")
224 out_fmt.add_argument("-r", "-rst", "--rst", action="store_true",
225 help="Output reStructuredText format (default).")
226 out_fmt.add_argument("-N", "-none", "--none", action="store_true",
227 help="Do not output documentation, only warnings.")
228
229 # Output selection mutually-exclusive group
230
231 sel_group = parser.add_argument_group("Output selection (mutually exclusive)")
232 sel_mut = sel_group.add_mutually_exclusive_group()
233
234 sel_mut.add_argument("-e", "-export", "--export", action='store_true',
235 help=EXPORT_DESC)
236
237 sel_mut.add_argument("-i", "-internal", "--internal", action='store_true',
238 help=INTERNAL_DESC)
239
240 sel_mut.add_argument("-s", "-function", "--symbol", action='append',
241 help=FUNCTION_DESC)
242
243 # Those are valid for all 3 types of filter
244 parser.add_argument("-n", "-nosymbol", "--nosymbol", action='append',
245 help=NOSYMBOL_DESC)
246
247 parser.add_argument("-D", "-no-doc-sections", "--no-doc-sections",
248 action='store_true', help="Don't outputt DOC sections")
249
250 parser.add_argument("files", metavar="FILE",
251 nargs="+", help=FILES_DESC)
252
253 args = parser.parse_args()
254
255 if args.wall:
256 args.wreturn = True
257 args.wshort_desc = True
258 args.wcontents_before_sections = True
259
260 logger = logging.getLogger()
261
262 if not args.debug:
263 logger.setLevel(logging.INFO)
264 else:
265 logger.setLevel(logging.DEBUG)
266
267 formatter = MsgFormatter('%(levelname)s: %(message)s')
268
269 handler = logging.StreamHandler()
270 handler.setFormatter(formatter)
271
272 logger.addHandler(handler)
273
274 python_ver = sys.version_info[:2]
275 if python_ver < (3,6):
276 logger.warning("Python 3.6 or later is required by kernel-doc")
277
278 # Return 0 here to avoid breaking compilation
279 sys.exit(0)
280
281 if python_ver < (3,7):
282 logger.warning("Python 3.7 or later is required for correct results")
283
284 if args.man:
285 out_style = ManFormat(modulename=args.modulename)
286 elif args.none:
287 out_style = None
288 else:
289 out_style = RestFormat()
290
291 kfiles = KernelFiles(verbose=args.verbose,
292 out_style=out_style, werror=args.werror,
293 wreturn=args.wreturn, wshort_desc=args.wshort_desc,
294 wcontents_before_sections=args.wcontents_before_sections)
295
296 kfiles.parse(args.files, export_file=args.export_file)
297
298 for t in kfiles.msg(enable_lineno=args.enable_lineno, export=args.export,
299 internal=args.internal, symbol=args.symbol,
300 nosymbol=args.nosymbol, export_file=args.export_file,
301 no_doc_sections=args.no_doc_sections):
302 msg = t[1]
303 if msg:
304 print(msg)
305
306 error_count = kfiles.errors
307 if not error_count:
308 sys.exit(0)
309
310 if args.werror:
311 print(f"{error_count} warnings as errors")
312 sys.exit(error_count)
313
314 if args.verbose:
315 print(f"{error_count} errors")
316
317 if args.none:
318 sys.exit(0)
319
320 sys.exit(error_count)
321
322
323# Call main method
324if __name__ == "__main__":
325 main()