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authorMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>2017-12-18 15:30:07 +0300
committerJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>2017-12-21 23:41:46 +0300
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docs: kernel-doc.rst: add documentation about man pages
kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt has a chapter about man pages production. While we don't have a working "make manpages" target, add it. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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@@ -452,3 +452,37 @@ file.
Data structures visible in kernel include files should also be documented using
kernel-doc formatted comments.
+
+How to use kernel-doc to generate man pages
+-------------------------------------------
+
+If you just want to use kernel-doc to generate man pages you can do this
+from the Kernel git tree::
+
+ $ scripts/kernel-doc -man $(git grep -l '/\*\*' |grep -v Documentation/) | ./split-man.pl /tmp/man
+
+Using the small ``split-man.pl`` script below::
+
+
+ #!/usr/bin/perl
+
+ if ($#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;