Hi Jon,

While discussing patch v2 12/12 from your kdoc series, I realized
that kernel-doc command line should not crash with Python 3.6,
nor cause compilation breakages with older versions.

The problem mainly affect builds with CONFIG_DRM enabled, due to:

drivers/gpu/drm/Makefile:                PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE=1 $(KERNELDOC) -none $(if $(CONFIG_WERROR)$(CONFIG_DRM_WERROR),-Werror) $<; \
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/Makefile:    cmd_checkdoc = PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE=1 $(KERNELDOC) -none -Werror $<
include/drm/Makefile:           PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE=1 $(KERNELDOC) -none $(if $(CONFIG_WERROR)$(CONFIG_DRM_WERROR),-Werror) $<; \

This small series prevent Kernel build breakages on such case,
and it is meant to be merged after your kdoc patches.

Patch 1 emits a warning wih Python 3.7 siilar to kdoc class,
but on an early stage. More importantly, it emits a warning
and exits the script for versions <= 3.6. 

We still need the kdoc warning, as it detect troubles when
calling kernel-doc as a class.

Patch 2 fix a backward-compatibility issue that otherwise
would require Python 3.9.

With that, building the Kernel with older versions won't break.

Regards,
Mauro

Mauro Carvalho Chehab (2):
  docs: kernel-doc: emit warnings for ancient versions of Python
  scripts: kdoc: make it backward-compatible with Python 3.7

 scripts/kernel-doc.py           | 10 ++++++++++
 scripts/lib/kdoc/kdoc_parser.py |  4 +++-
 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

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