RE: [EXT] Re: [Kernel 5.15/Kernle 6.1] About Sphinx Doc.

[Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>]

Ming Wen <mwen@ambarella.com> writes:

>> It is required to go with Sphinx 2.4.4, which is much lower than the
>> version(8.1.3) of ubuntu 22.04 and 24.04.
> [Ming] To build the sphinx doc for Kernel 5.15 or 6.1, it is required to go with Sphinx 2.4.4.

We recommended that version back then, mostly because the newer versions
were slower, but it is absolutely not required.

I just did the build for 6.134 using Sphinx 7.3.7.  It emits a bunch of
deprecation warnings, but otherwise works.

There are various fixes in mainline for some of those warnings; somebody
could certainly pick them out and ask for stable backports.  I can put
that onto my list of things to do, but won't get there in the next few
days.

Thanks,

jon