From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2026 09:10:52 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: docs: kdoc_output: raise an error if full_proto not available for var
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docs: kdoc_output: raise an error if full_proto not available for var

This is mandatory, but if it is missing, we need to know what
symbol had problems.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <0c3d9dd25889784b999efdb354ade48264c0e03c.1774256269.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
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diff --git a/tools/lib/python/kdoc/kdoc_output.py b/tools/lib/python/kdoc/kdoc_output.py
index 2bfcd356654bf..de107ab4a2811 100644
--- a/tools/lib/python/kdoc/kdoc_output.py
+++ b/tools/lib/python/kdoc/kdoc_output.py
@@ -513,7 +513,9 @@ class RestFormat(OutputFormat):
     def out_var(self, fname, name, args):
         oldprefix = self.lineprefix
         ln = args.declaration_start_line
-        full_proto = args.other_stuff["full_proto"]
+        full_proto = args.other_stuff.get("full_proto")
+        if not full_proto:
+            raise KeyError(f"Can't find full proto for {name} variable")
 
         self.lineprefix = "  "