Re: [PATCH 1/2] doc/sphinx: Enable keep_warnings

Jonathan Corbet
2016-07-19T22:23:12Z

On Tue, 19 Jul 2016 13:42:54 +0200
Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> wrote:

> Unfortunately warnings generated after parsing in sphinx can end up
> with entirely bogus files and line numbers as sources. Strangely for
> outright errors this is not a problem. Trying to convert warnings to
> errors also doesn't fix it.
>
> The only way to get useful output out of sphinx to be able to root
> cause the error seems to be enabling keep_warnings, which inserts
> a System Message into the actual output. Not pretty at all, but I
> don't really want to fix up core rst/sphinx code, and this gets the job
> done meanwhile.

I'll go ahead and apply this. It *would* be nice, someday, to figure out
how to get proper info out for warnings directly, but until somebody gets
there...

Thanks,

jon