From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from ms.lwn.net (ms.lwn.net [45.79.88.28]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 73F011B21BF for ; Tue, 2 Sep 2025 15:15:51 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=45.79.88.28 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1756826152; cv=none; b=CkMCP4H95PQRAMvG5NcPjyqhKX0c3Ku0txYNGu4khooBhB3n0933WBVRHH/FogtPk0nUOYqthoi22Cj1VSKfJ9G3957PdWyrkdwlSsYBMrn1kPYLxx3HHN/RcM90i4TDhRBAJlztDocQVnV5EBB9Q67Q5aYAHyGXVfosKii7hdc= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1756826152; c=relaxed/simple; bh=qoGtyu5m4QCOHcaH1GIUeRoNbpvl++oxlKMI3DKIE3I=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:Date:Message-ID: MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=e9FUBWiV9bfxYH3JX1jqa8C73iGMJuxrODqCW2jugWs6v3dsZWqH8vITonKPuVyPx3FgzDEPJVkFTOFR9a+6vvRTUuNMpPmRWjJtywvmYBXaEcOSYE5VvSAdXr0DCY3G3aGX9+VYwLVzgJ+GsE8qX7CrJ0ba4NidMCm2eTv8PUo= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=lwn.net; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=lwn.net; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=lwn.net header.i=@lwn.net header.b=XPPoz8+H; arc=none smtp.client-ip=45.79.88.28 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=lwn.net Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=lwn.net Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=lwn.net header.i=@lwn.net header.b="XPPoz8+H" DKIM-Filter: OpenDKIM Filter v2.11.0 ms.lwn.net 62A6F40AFD DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=lwn.net; s=20201203; t=1756826150; bh=bcZKRrrYe/3aLeyEZGEvcoWbhFxph4Rl9XPebC0N214=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:Date:From; b=XPPoz8+Hw/OqZHGPTCCHjWKJZDXy0xM71RFhi17zKM+PBZ4IoTDkqvJzfFVqPZf4N Q7PIXjrMz0G8I0VdWbn5KU94Cqdgr896Kg29q0cu7Ivp6+XCMGmbxU7ZloeBBPQbMA NrXS3BIH77sAvbvXemk3m7AEsZ0BgD5sDIVysTz2WsFhfmXN0CpAeUehYgQsmZzvRf Oys6haTTVx39EIcmAQWbvTB4o+cxfn6es2+dKP1ZSeg4/vOiZ8VQEwIwDz+FXTuMMX pI3juG1pZC060z6ho6keyDiURMR+MQf4Az/CQOj9bAheZqsGyOXtk5g1UOlWgNKkSR H3HhAXp5mhy9g== Received: from localhost (unknown [IPv6:2601:280:4600:2da9::1fe]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by ms.lwn.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 62A6F40AFD; Tue, 2 Sep 2025 15:15:50 +0000 (UTC) From: Jonathan Corbet To: Mauro Carvalho Chehab , Mark Brown Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab , Randy Dunlap , Jani Nikula , Laurent Pinchart , Vegard Nossum , ksummit@lists.linux.dev, Linux Documentation , Akira Yokosawa , Bagas Sanjaya , Matthew Wilcox Subject: Re: [TECH TOPIC] Kernel documentation - update and future directions In-Reply-To: References: <2f927f53-9af5-4e0c-be8f-f7bdf90e23ff@sirena.org.uk> <20250901204635.51b81ffd@foz.lan> <1bf8a898-e697-46e2-86b1-4158b021d652@sirena.org.uk> <865e583b-4c97-4db1-963c-ed8539fa56dc@sirena.org.uk> <20250902135938.35048fbc@foz.lan> <20250902141434.3e5b14e4@foz.lan> <8339a5dd-446d-4717-9d68-983f5e2354b3@sirena.org.uk> Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2025 09:15:49 -0600 Message-ID: <87ecsox4uy.fsf@trenco.lwn.net> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: ksummit@lists.linux.dev List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Mauro Carvalho Chehab writes: > To sum-up those discussions, I can propose a patchset for the next > merge window that would: > > 1. change kernel-doc exec to re-run using the latest available python > version if version < 3.11, on a similar same way to what > scripts-pre-install and scripts-build-wrapper does(*); I have to confess that I still feel some discomfort with this sort of "pick a better version" magic. Should we really be overriding the search path that the user has set up? Thanks, jon