[PATCH 0/4] Improve Sphinx kerneldoc extension

[Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>]

Hi Jon,

As promised, this series improves the Sphinx kerneldoc extension making it using the
kernel-doc.py classes directly if available.

The script still supports excecuting kernel-doc via shell, and, in verbose mode, it will
show the command line arguments to run kernel-doc manually, even when the Python
classes are used. The idea is that the command line verbose will help to eventually
debug issues if one needs to run kernel-doc.py manually. 

On other words, after this series, if one does:

	make htmldocs KERNELDOC=scripts/kernel-doc.py

Or, simply (as internally KERNELDOC is set to scripts/kernel-doc.py):

	make htmldocs

It will use the Python classes instead of running a subprocess.

If one uses, instead:

	make htmldocs KERNELDOC=scripts/kernel-doc
or:
	make htmldocs KERNELDOC=scripts/kernel-doc.pl

As the file extension doesn't end with .py, it will excecute the Python or the Perl
version of kernel-doc via a subprocess.

On this version, I opted to re-create the Python objects for every single kernel-doc
line, so no caches from past runs are used. I'm working on a version that will cache
results, but it is currently causing some regressions. So, let's do the changes
step-by-step, applying first this improvement patch series.

PS.: the first patches on this series are addressing some some bugs and one
improvement that I noticed while debugging the patch changing kerneldoc
Sphinx extension.

Mauro Carvalho Chehab (4):
  scripts/lib/kdoc/kdoc_files.py: don't try to join None
  scripts/lib/kdoc/kdoc_parser.py: move states to a separate class
  scripts:kdoc_files.py: use glob for export_file seek
  docs: sphinx: kerneldoc: Use python class if available

 Documentation/sphinx/kerneldoc.py | 138 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 scripts/lib/kdoc/kdoc_files.py    |  11 ++-
 scripts/lib/kdoc/kdoc_parser.py   | 119 ++++++++++++++------------
 3 files changed, 200 insertions(+), 68 deletions(-)

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