Re: [PATCH] Documentation: ext4: atomic_writes: Remove cross-reference labels

Bagas Sanjaya
2025-06-12T00:07:05Z

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On Wed, Jun 11, 2025 at 11:05:17AM -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org> writes:
>
> > On Tue, Jun 10, 2025 at 04:11:59PM +0700, Bagas Sanjaya wrote:
> >> Sphinx reports htmldocs warnings on ext4 atomic block writes docs:
> >>
> >> Documentation/filesystems/ext4/atomic_writes.rst:5: WARNING: duplicate label atomic_writes, other instance in Documentation/filesystems/ext4/atomic_writes.rst
> >> Documentation/filesystems/ext4/atomic_writes.rst:207: WARNING: duplicate label atomic_write_bdev_support, other instance in Documentation/filesystems/ext4/atomic_writes.rst
> >>
> >> These warnings reference duplicated cross-reference labels to themselves in
> >> the same doc, which are because atomic_writes.rst is transcluded in
> >> overview.rst via include:: directive, thus the culprit docs get processed
> >> twice.
> >
> > <confused> How is that possible? atomic_writes.rst is only "include::"d
> > once in overview.rst. Is the file implicitly included through some
> > other means?
>
> Sphinx wants to snarf up every .rst file it sees, regardless of whether
> it is explicitly made part of the document tree. So it will pick up
> atomic_writes.rst separately from the include.
>
> This could be "fixed" by removing the .rst extension from the included
> file. But, since there is no use of the atomic_writes label to begin
> with, it's better to just take it out. The other fix, removing a cross
> reference, is not entirely ideal, but there is little text between the
> label and the reference.

So removing the labels looks good to you, right?

Confused...

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