On Mon, Aug 30, 2021 at 1:44 PM Stephen John Smoogen <smooge(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, 30 Aug 2021 at 13:07, Nils K <nilskemail+github(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I recently had to perform a bit of development/research where I often had to take a
look in the kernel documentation.
>
> Most of the time was spend offline so I wanted to download the `kernel-doc` package
however it does not seem to exist.
> Some old fedora documentations still refer to it however somewhere in the 2x
iteration of fedora it seems to have gone missing.
> CentOS 8 also still has it.
> Would it be possible to add this back to the repos?
It isn't that we aren't shipping it, it is that the Kernel spec file
does not generate any documentation anymore. It looks like Fedora 20
made this change but I don't know why beyond
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1223200 . While EL-8 is
It required koji hacks to build at the time, and the Fedora kernel
revved daily. The value of producing the docs package when the same
docs are available on
kernel.org was very low. We removed it.
based on Fedora-28, the kernel team for RHEL uses a different spec
file. It also did not start shipping with the kernel-doc but looks to
have been added with
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1659636
At this point I suggest you file a bug against the kernel and cite
those two bugs. The current kernel team can work out what work it
would be needed and if it could be added.
The move to ARK changed the dynamics a bit. I think there was a
request elsewhere to build it as well.
josh