Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: submit-checklist: add Documentation clean builds

From: Mike Rapoport <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2020 14:41:53 +0300

On Sun, Aug 23, 2020 at 05:38:12PM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> From: Randy Dunlap <[email-masked]>
> 
> Add to Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst that patch
> submitters should run "make htmldocs" and verify that any
> Documentation/ changes (patches) are clean (no new warnings/errors).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <[email-masked]>
> ---
>  Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst |    4 ++++
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> 
> --- linux-next-20200821.orig/Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst
> +++ linux-next-20200821/Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst
> @@ -24,6 +24,10 @@ and elsewhere regarding submitting Linux
>  
>    c) Builds successfully when using ``O=builddir``
>  
> +  d) Any Documentation/ changes build successfully without warnings/errors.

Maybe "... without new warnings/errors"?
Unfortunately we still have plenty of old ones...

> +     Use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs`` to check the build and
> +     fix any issues.
> +
>  3) Builds on multiple CPU architectures by using local cross-compile tools
>     or some other build farm.
>  
> 

-- 
Sincerely yours,
Mike.