Re: [PATCH v6 00/15] Don't generate netlink .rst files inside $(srctree)

[Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com>]

Hi Mauro,

On 2025/06/18 20:46, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> As discussed at:
>    https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250610101331.62ba466f@foz.lan/
> 
> changeset f061c9f7d058 ("Documentation: Document each netlink family")
> added a logic which generates *.rst files inside $(srctree). This is bad
> when O=<BUILDDIR> is used.
> 
> A recent change renamed the yaml files used by Netlink, revealing a bad
> side effect: as "make cleandocs" don't clean the produced files and symbols
> appear duplicated for people that don't build the kernel from scratch.
> 
> This series adds an yaml parser extension and uses an index file with glob for
> *. We opted to write such extension in a way that no actual yaml conversion
> code is inside it. This makes it flexible enough to handle other types of yaml
> files in the future. The actual yaml conversion logic were placed at 
> netlink_yml_parser.py. 
> 
> As requested by YNL maintainers, this version has netlink_yml_parser.py
> inside tools/net/ynl/pyynl/ directory. I don't like mixing libraries with
> binaries, nor to have Python libraries spread all over the Kernel. IMO,
> the best is to put all of them on a common place (scripts/lib, python/lib,
> lib/python, ...) but, as this can be solved later, for now let's keep it this
> way.
> 
> ---
> 
> v6:
> - YNL doc parser is now at tools/net/ynl/pyynl/lib/doc_generator.py;
> - two patches got merged;
> - added instructions to test docs with Sphinx 3.4.3 (minimal supported
>   version);
> - minor fixes.

Quick tests against Sphinx 3.4.3 using container images based on
debian:bullseye and almalinux:9, both of which have 3.4.3 as their distro
packages, emits a *bunch* of warnings like the following:

/<srcdir>/Documentation/netlink/specs/conntrack.yaml:: WARNING: YAML parsing error: AttributeError("'Values' object has no attribute 'tab_width'")
/<srcdir>/Documentation/netlink/specs/devlink.yaml:: WARNING: YAML parsing error: AttributeError("'Values' object has no attribute 'tab_width'")
/<srcdir>/Documentation/netlink/specs/dpll.yaml:: WARNING: YAML parsing error: AttributeError("'Values' object has no attribute 'tab_width'")
/<srcdir>/Documentation/netlink/specs/ethtool.yaml:: WARNING: YAML parsing error: AttributeError("'Values' object has no attribute 'tab_width'")
/<srcdir>/Documentation/netlink/specs/fou.yaml:: WARNING: YAML parsing error: AttributeError("'Values' object has no attribute 'tab_width'")
[...]

I suspect there should be a minimal required minimal version of PyYAML.

"pip freeze" based on almalinux:9 says:

    PyYAML==5.4.1

"pip freeze" based on debian:bullseye says:

    PyYAML==5.3.1

What is the minimal required version here?

And if users of those old distros need to manually upgrade PyYAML,
why don't you suggest them to upgrade Sphinx as well?

        Thanks, Akira

>
> v5:
> - some patch reorg;
> - netlink_yml_parser.py is now together with ynl tools;
> - minor fixes.
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