Add scripts/split-man.pl
Instead of asking the user to copy and paste a small perl script from
the documentation, just distribute the perl script in the scripts
directory.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
diff --git a/Documentation/doc-guide/kernel-doc.rst b/Documentation/doc-guide/kernel-doc.rst
index 64ca081..4663470 100644
--- a/Documentation/doc-guide/kernel-doc.rst
+++ b/Documentation/doc-guide/kernel-doc.rst
@@ -528,32 +528,6 @@
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If you just want to use kernel-doc to generate man pages you can do this
-from the Kernel git tree::
+from the kernel git tree::
- $ scripts/kernel-doc -man $(git grep -l '/\*\*' |grep -v Documentation/) | ./split-man.pl /tmp/man
-
-Using the small ``split-man.pl`` script below::
-
-
- #!/usr/bin/perl
-
- if ($#ARGV < 0) {
- die "where do I put the results?\n";
- }
-
- mkdir $ARGV[0],0777;
- $state = 0;
- while (<STDIN>) {
- if (/^\.TH \"[^\"]*\" 9 \"([^\"]*)\"/) {
- if ($state == 1) { close OUT }
- $state = 1;
- $fn = "$ARGV[0]/$1.9";
- print STDERR "Creating $fn\n";
- open OUT, ">$fn" or die "can't open $fn: $!\n";
- print OUT $_;
- } elsif ($state != 0) {
- print OUT $_;
- }
- }
-
- close OUT;
+ $ scripts/kernel-doc -man $(git grep -l '/\*\*' -- :^Documentation :^tools) | scripts/split-man.pl /tmp/man