rustdoc: deprecate `#![doc(passes, plugins, no_default_passes)]` by QuietMisdreavus · Pull Request #50669 · rust-lang/rust

@QuietMisdreavus QuietMisdreavus changed the title Deprecated attrs rustdoc: deprecate #![doc(passes, plugins, no_default_passes)]

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rustdoc: deprecate `#![doc(passes, plugins, no_default_passes)]`

Closes rust-lang#48164

Blocked on rust-lang#50541 - this includes those changes, which were necessary to create the UI test

cc rust-lang#44136

Turns out, there were special attributes to mess with rustdoc passes and plugins! Who knew! Since we deprecated the CLI flags for this functionality, it makes sense that we do the same for the attributes.

This PR also introduces a `#![doc(document_private_items)]` attribute, to match the `--document-private-items` flag introduced in rust-lang#44138 when the passes/plugins flags were deprecated.

I haven't done a search to see whether these attributes are being used at all, but if the flags were any indication, i don't expect to see any users of these.

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May 17, 2018
Rollup of 17 pull requests

Successful merges:

 - #50170 (Implement From for more types on Cow)
 - #50638 (Don't unconditionally set CLOEXEC twice on every fd we open on Linux)
 - #50656 (Fix `fn main() -> impl Trait` for non-`Termination` trait)
 - #50669 (rustdoc: deprecate `#![doc(passes, plugins, no_default_passes)]`)
 - #50726 (read2: Use inner function instead of closure)
 - #50728 (Fix rustdoc panic with `impl Trait` in type parameters)
 - #50736 (env: remove unwrap in examples in favor of try op)
 - #50740 (Remove LazyBTreeMap.)
 - #50752 (Add missing error codes in libsyntax-ext asm)
 - #50779 (Make mutable_noalias and arg_align_attributes be tracked)
 - #50787 (Fix run-make wasm tests)
 - #50788 (Fix an ICE when casting a nonexistent const)
 - #50789 (Ensure libraries built in stage0 have unique metadata)
 - #50793 (tidy: Add a check for empty UI test files)
 - #50797 (fix a typo in signed-integer::from_str_radix())
 - #50808 (Stabilize num::NonZeroU*)
 - #50809 (GitHub: Stop treating Cargo.lock as a generated file.)

Failed merges:

Zalathar added a commit to Zalathar/rust that referenced this pull request

Nov 11, 2025
…s-attr, r=GuillaumeGomez

rustdoc: Erase `#![doc(document_private_items)]`

I just found out about the existence of `#![doc(document_private_items)]`. Apparently it was added by PR rust-lang#50669 back in 2018 without any tests or docs as a replacement for some specific forms of the removed `#![doc(passes)]` / `#![doc(no_default_passes)]`.

However, rustc and rustdoc actually emit the deny-by-default lint `invalid_doc_attributes` for it (but if you allow it, the attribute does function)! To be more precise since PR rust-lang#82708 (1.52, May 2021) which introduced lint `invalid_doc_attributes`, rust{,do}c has emitted a future-incompat warning for this attribute. And since PR rust-lang#111505 (1.78, May 2024) that lint is deny by default. I presume nobody knew this attribute existed and thus it was never allowlisted.

Given the fact that since 2021 nobody has ever opened a ticket ([via](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues?q=is%3Aissue+document_private_items)) complaining about the lint emission and the fact that GitHub code search doesn't yield any actual uses ([via](https://github.com/search?q=%2F%23%21%5C%5Bdoc%5C%28.*%3Fdocument_private_items%2F+language%3ARust&type=code&ref=advsearch)), I'm led to believe that nobody knows about and uses this attribute.

I don't find the existence of this attribute to be justified since in my view the flag `--document-private-items` is strictly superior: In most if not all cases, you don't want to "couple" your crate with this "mode" even if you gate it behind a cfg; instead, you most likely want to set this manually at invocation time, via a build config file like `.cargo/config.toml` or via a command runner like `just` I'd say.

Because of this I propose to wipe this attribute from existence. I don't believe it's worth cratering this (i.e., temporarily emitting a hard error for this attribute and running crater) given the fact that it's been undocumented since forever and led to a warning for years.

Zalathar added a commit to Zalathar/rust that referenced this pull request

Nov 11, 2025
…s-attr, r=GuillaumeGomez

rustdoc: Erase `#![doc(document_private_items)]`

I just found out about the existence of `#![doc(document_private_items)]`. Apparently it was added by PR rust-lang#50669 back in 2018 without any tests or docs as a replacement for some specific forms of the removed `#![doc(passes)]` / `#![doc(no_default_passes)]`.

However, rustc and rustdoc actually emit the deny-by-default lint `invalid_doc_attributes` for it (but if you allow it, the attribute does function)! To be more precise since PR rust-lang#82708 (1.52, May 2021) which introduced lint `invalid_doc_attributes`, rust{,do}c has emitted a future-incompat warning for this attribute. And since PR rust-lang#111505 (1.78, May 2024) that lint is deny by default. I presume nobody knew this attribute existed and thus it was never allowlisted.

Given the fact that since 2021 nobody has ever opened a ticket ([via](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues?q=is%3Aissue+document_private_items)) complaining about the lint emission and the fact that GitHub code search doesn't yield any actual uses ([via](https://github.com/search?q=%2F%23%21%5C%5Bdoc%5C%28.*%3Fdocument_private_items%2F+language%3ARust&type=code&ref=advsearch)), I'm led to believe that nobody knows about and uses this attribute.

I don't find the existence of this attribute to be justified since in my view the flag `--document-private-items` is strictly superior: In most if not all cases, you don't want to "couple" your crate with this "mode" even if you gate it behind a cfg; instead, you most likely want to set this manually at invocation time, via a build config file like `.cargo/config.toml` or via a command runner like `just` I'd say.

Because of this I propose to wipe this attribute from existence. I don't believe it's worth cratering this (i.e., temporarily emitting a hard error for this attribute and running crater) given the fact that it's been undocumented since forever and led to a warning for years.

Zalathar added a commit to Zalathar/rust that referenced this pull request

Nov 11, 2025
…s-attr, r=GuillaumeGomez

rustdoc: Erase `#![doc(document_private_items)]`

I just found out about the existence of `#![doc(document_private_items)]`. Apparently it was added by PR rust-lang#50669 back in 2018 without any tests or docs as a replacement for some specific forms of the removed `#![doc(passes)]` / `#![doc(no_default_passes)]`.

However, rustc and rustdoc actually emit the deny-by-default lint `invalid_doc_attributes` for it (but if you allow it, the attribute does function)! To be more precise since PR rust-lang#82708 (1.52, May 2021) which introduced lint `invalid_doc_attributes`, rust{,do}c has emitted a future-incompat warning for this attribute. And since PR rust-lang#111505 (1.78, May 2024) that lint is deny by default. I presume nobody knew this attribute existed and thus it was never allowlisted.

Given the fact that since 2021 nobody has ever opened a ticket ([via](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues?q=is%3Aissue+document_private_items)) complaining about the lint emission and the fact that GitHub code search doesn't yield any actual uses ([via](https://github.com/search?q=%2F%23%21%5C%5Bdoc%5C%28.*%3Fdocument_private_items%2F+language%3ARust&type=code&ref=advsearch)), I'm led to believe that nobody knows about and uses this attribute.

I don't find the existence of this attribute to be justified since in my view the flag `--document-private-items` is strictly superior: In most if not all cases, you don't want to "couple" your crate with this "mode" even if you gate it behind a cfg; instead, you most likely want to set this manually at invocation time, via a build config file like `.cargo/config.toml` or via a command runner like `just` I'd say.

Because of this I propose to wipe this attribute from existence. I don't believe it's worth cratering this (i.e., temporarily emitting a hard error for this attribute and running crater) given the fact that it's been undocumented since forever and led to a warning for years.

Zalathar added a commit to Zalathar/rust that referenced this pull request

Nov 11, 2025
…s-attr, r=GuillaumeGomez

rustdoc: Erase `#![doc(document_private_items)]`

I just found out about the existence of `#![doc(document_private_items)]`. Apparently it was added by PR rust-lang#50669 back in 2018 without any tests or docs as a replacement for some specific forms of the removed `#![doc(passes)]` / `#![doc(no_default_passes)]`.

However, rustc and rustdoc actually emit the deny-by-default lint `invalid_doc_attributes` for it (but if you allow it, the attribute does function)! To be more precise since PR rust-lang#82708 (1.52, May 2021) which introduced lint `invalid_doc_attributes`, rust{,do}c has emitted a future-incompat warning for this attribute. And since PR rust-lang#111505 (1.78, May 2024) that lint is deny by default. I presume nobody knew this attribute existed and thus it was never allowlisted.

Given the fact that since 2021 nobody has ever opened a ticket ([via](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues?q=is%3Aissue+document_private_items)) complaining about the lint emission and the fact that GitHub code search doesn't yield any actual uses ([via](https://github.com/search?q=%2F%23%21%5C%5Bdoc%5C%28.*%3Fdocument_private_items%2F+language%3ARust&type=code&ref=advsearch)), I'm led to believe that nobody knows about and uses this attribute.

I don't find the existence of this attribute to be justified since in my view the flag `--document-private-items` is strictly superior: In most if not all cases, you don't want to "couple" your crate with this "mode" even if you gate it behind a cfg; instead, you most likely want to set this manually at invocation time, via a build config file like `.cargo/config.toml` or via a command runner like `just` I'd say.

Because of this I propose to wipe this attribute from existence. I don't believe it's worth cratering this (i.e., temporarily emitting a hard error for this attribute and running crater) given the fact that it's been undocumented since forever and led to a warning for years.

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Nov 11, 2025
Rollup merge of #146495 - fmease:rustdoc-erase-doc-priv-items-attr, r=GuillaumeGomez

rustdoc: Erase `#![doc(document_private_items)]`

I just found out about the existence of `#![doc(document_private_items)]`. Apparently it was added by PR #50669 back in 2018 without any tests or docs as a replacement for some specific forms of the removed `#![doc(passes)]` / `#![doc(no_default_passes)]`.

However, rustc and rustdoc actually emit the deny-by-default lint `invalid_doc_attributes` for it (but if you allow it, the attribute does function)! To be more precise since PR #82708 (1.52, May 2021) which introduced lint `invalid_doc_attributes`, rust{,do}c has emitted a future-incompat warning for this attribute. And since PR #111505 (1.78, May 2024) that lint is deny by default. I presume nobody knew this attribute existed and thus it was never allowlisted.

Given the fact that since 2021 nobody has ever opened a ticket ([via](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues?q=is%3Aissue+document_private_items)) complaining about the lint emission and the fact that GitHub code search doesn't yield any actual uses ([via](https://github.com/search?q=%2F%23%21%5C%5Bdoc%5C%28.*%3Fdocument_private_items%2F+language%3ARust&type=code&ref=advsearch)), I'm led to believe that nobody knows about and uses this attribute.

I don't find the existence of this attribute to be justified since in my view the flag `--document-private-items` is strictly superior: In most if not all cases, you don't want to "couple" your crate with this "mode" even if you gate it behind a cfg; instead, you most likely want to set this manually at invocation time, via a build config file like `.cargo/config.toml` or via a command runner like `just` I'd say.

Because of this I propose to wipe this attribute from existence. I don't believe it's worth cratering this (i.e., temporarily emitting a hard error for this attribute and running crater) given the fact that it's been undocumented since forever and led to a warning for years.

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rustdoc: Erase `#![doc(document_private_items)]`

I just found out about the existence of `#![doc(document_private_items)]`. Apparently it was added by PR rust-lang/rust#50669 back in 2018 without any tests or docs as a replacement for some specific forms of the removed `#![doc(passes)]` / `#![doc(no_default_passes)]`.

However, rustc and rustdoc actually emit the deny-by-default lint `invalid_doc_attributes` for it (but if you allow it, the attribute does function)! To be more precise since PR rust-lang/rust#82708 (1.52, May 2021) which introduced lint `invalid_doc_attributes`, rust{,do}c has emitted a future-incompat warning for this attribute. And since PR rust-lang/rust#111505 (1.78, May 2024) that lint is deny by default. I presume nobody knew this attribute existed and thus it was never allowlisted.

Given the fact that since 2021 nobody has ever opened a ticket ([via](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues?q=is%3Aissue+document_private_items)) complaining about the lint emission and the fact that GitHub code search doesn't yield any actual uses ([via](https://github.com/search?q=%2F%23%21%5C%5Bdoc%5C%28.*%3Fdocument_private_items%2F+language%3ARust&type=code&ref=advsearch)), I'm led to believe that nobody knows about and uses this attribute.

I don't find the existence of this attribute to be justified since in my view the flag `--document-private-items` is strictly superior: In most if not all cases, you don't want to "couple" your crate with this "mode" even if you gate it behind a cfg; instead, you most likely want to set this manually at invocation time, via a build config file like `.cargo/config.toml` or via a command runner like `just` I'd say.

Because of this I propose to wipe this attribute from existence. I don't believe it's worth cratering this (i.e., temporarily emitting a hard error for this attribute and running crater) given the fact that it's been undocumented since forever and led to a warning for years.