Subject: Re: linux-next: build warning after merge of the vfs tree

From: Stephen Rothwell <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2026 15:04:58 +1100

Hi Al,

On Thu, 15 Jan 2026 03:10:53 +0000 Al Viro <[email-masked]> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jan 15, 2026 at 02:01:32PM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> > 
> > After merging the vfs tree, today's linux-next build (htmldocs) produced
> > this warning:
> > 
> > Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst:1348: ERROR: Unknown target name: "filename". [docutils]
> > 
> > Introduced by commit
> > 
> >   7335480a8461 ("non-consuming variant of do_linkat()")  
> 
> Egads...  That's from "filename_{link,renameat2}()" in there (there's also
> "do_{link,renameat2}()" earlier in the same line, but that didn't produce
> a warning.
> 
> Any suggestions re better way to spell it for .rst?

It eventually becomes (literally) "filename_..." so that might be the
issue.  Maybe quote it like 'function_...()'?

Maybe Jon or Mauro have a suggestion.
-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell