diff --git a/.github/workflows/sof-docs.yml b/.github/workflows/sof-docs.yml
index 5b647816b93c..5920c51aaad5 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/sof-docs.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/sof-docs.yml
@@ -56,4 +56,4 @@ jobs:
         run: pip install -r sof-docs/scripts/requirements.txt
 
       - name: build sof-docs
-        run: make -C sof-docs/ html SOF_DOC_BUILD="$(pwd)"/doxybuild/
+        run: LAX=1 make -C sof-docs/ html SOF_DOC_BUILD="$(pwd)"/doxybuild/
diff --git a/doc/sof.doxygen.in b/doc/sof.doxygen.in
index bfbea17a7149..6379da500f11 100644
--- a/doc/sof.doxygen.in
+++ b/doc/sof.doxygen.in
@@ -40,3 +40,4 @@ TYPEDEF_HIDES_STRUCT = YES
 #FILTER_SOURCE_FILES = YES
 
 HTML_TIMESTAMP = NO
+WARN_AS_ERROR = NO