Re: [PATCH bpf-next v3 2/2] Add table of BPF program types to libbpf docs

[Donald Hunter <donald.hunter@gmail.com>]

Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com> writes:

> On Mon, 29 Aug 2022, Donald Hunter <donald.hunter@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Extend the libbpf documentation with a table of program types,
>> attach points and ELF section names. This table uses data from
>> program_types.csv which is generated from tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c
>> during the documentation build.
>
> Oh, would be nice to turn all of these into proper but simple Sphinx
> extensions that take the deps into account in the Sphinx build
> process. And, of course, would be pure python instead of a combo of
> Make, shell, and awk.
>
> That's one of the reasons we chose Sphinx originally, to be able to
> write Sphinx extensions and avoid complicated pipelines.

I could look at this as a followup patch since I would need to learn how
to write Sphinx extensions first. It seems that it will require a new
reST directive, is that right?