Re: [PATCH] docs: redirect from old arch to the new one

[Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>]

Costa Shulyupin <costa.shul@redhat.com> writes:

> Due to a recent reorganization of 'CPU Architectures', the links to
> the documentation from external resources were rendered invalid.
> This is a common challenge when attempting to make changes
> while maintaining backward compatibility. To address this issue,
> a commit has been made which uses sphinx extension to seamlessly
> redirect users from the old location of the page to the new one.
>
>
> Signed-off-by: Costa Shulyupin <costa.shul@redhat.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/conf.py                 | 8 +++++++-
>  Documentation/sphinx/requirements.txt | 1 +
>  2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/conf.py b/Documentation/conf.py
> index 37314afd1ac8..514bfe6a8166 100644
> --- a/Documentation/conf.py
> +++ b/Documentation/conf.py
> @@ -55,7 +55,13 @@ needs_sphinx = '1.7'
>  extensions = ['kerneldoc', 'rstFlatTable', 'kernel_include',
>                'kfigure', 'sphinx.ext.ifconfig', 'automarkup',
>                'maintainers_include', 'sphinx.ext.autosectionlabel',
> -              'kernel_abi', 'kernel_feat']
> +              'kernel_abi', 'kernel_feat',
> +              'sphinx_reredirects',
> +]
> +
> +redirects = {
> +     "arch.html": "arch/index.html",
> +}

I am not generally opposed to doing this, but:

- It only solves part of the problem; links directly into (say) the x86
  docs will still break.

- Is there really a problem?  Are there to-be-broken links out there
  that you can point to?

Thanks,

jon