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diff --git a/Documentation/doc-guide/kernel-doc.rst b/Documentation/doc-guide/kernel-doc.rst index 51be62aa4385..450ac634e92e 100644 --- a/Documentation/doc-guide/kernel-doc.rst +++ b/Documentation/doc-guide/kernel-doc.rst @@ -517,4 +517,17 @@ 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 '/\*\*' -- :^Documentation :^tools) | scripts/split-man.pl /tmp/man + $ scripts/kernel-doc -man \ + $(git grep -l '/\*\*' -- :^Documentation :^tools) \ + | scripts/split-man.pl /tmp/man + +Some older versions of git do not support some of the variants of syntax for +path exclusion. One of the following commands may work for those versions:: + + $ scripts/kernel-doc -man \ + $(git grep -l '/\*\*' -- . ':!Documentation' ':!tools') \ + | scripts/split-man.pl /tmp/man + + $ scripts/kernel-doc -man \ + $(git grep -l '/\*\*' -- . ":(exclude)Documentation" ":(exclude)tools") \ + | scripts/split-man.pl /tmp/man |