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From: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>,
	Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@darmarit.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] Make the docs build "work" with Sphinx 3.x
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2020 10:23:46 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sgbaqnp9.fsf@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200921222639.GY32101@casper.infradead.org>

On Mon, 21 Sep 2020, Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 04, 2020 at 10:29:25AM -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
>> +# cdomain is badly broken in Sphinx 3+.  Leaving it out generates *most*
>> +# of the docs correctly, but not all.  Scream bloody murder but allow
>> +# the process to proceed; hopefully somebody will fix this properly soon.
>> +#
>> +if major >= 3:
>> +    sys.stderr.write('''WARNING: The kernel documentation build process
>> +	does not work correctly with Sphinx v3.0 and above.  Expect errors
>> +	in the generated output.
>
> Should we be converting the kernel-doc script to output 3.0-style markup
> for structs?

IIUC it's not backwards compatible with Sphinx pre-3.0, so you'd either
have to require Sphinx 3.0 or have kernel-doc emit both, depending on
the Sphinx version.


BR,
Jani.


>
> https://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master/usage/restructuredtext/domains.html#c-roles

-- 
Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Graphics Center

  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-09-22  7:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-04 16:29 [PATCH RFC] Make the docs build "work" with Sphinx 3.x Jonathan Corbet
2020-09-21 22:26 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-09-22  7:19   ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2020-09-22  7:23   ` Jani Nikula [this message]
2020-09-22 16:56     ` Jonathan Corbet
2020-09-23  9:01       ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2020-09-23 11:53         ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2020-09-23 14:02           ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2020-09-24  7:02             ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2020-09-24 11:22               ` [PATCH 0/2] Start supporting builds with Sphinx 3.1+ Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2020-09-24 11:22                 ` [PATCH 1/2] docs: cdomain.py: add support for two new Sphinx 3.1+ tags Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2020-09-24 15:43                   ` Jonathan Corbet
2020-09-24 16:13                     ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2020-09-24 16:22                       ` Jonathan Corbet
2020-09-25  4:14                         ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2020-09-24 11:22                 ` [PATCH 2/2] media: docs: make CEC documents compatible with Sphinx 3.1+ Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2020-09-24 12:47     ` [PATCH RFC] Make the docs build "work" with Sphinx 3.x Mauro Carvalho Chehab

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