[PATCH] docs: escape ** glob pattern in MAINTAINERS descriptions

[PATCH] docs: escape ** glob pattern in MAINTAINERS descriptions

[Matteo Croce]

From: Matteo Croce <teknoraver@meta.com>

Escape '**' in the MAINTAINERS descriptions section to prevent
reStructuredText from interpreting it as bold/strong inline markup,
which causes a warning when running 'make htmldocs'.

Fixes: 420849332f9f ("get_maintainer: add ** glob pattern support")
Signed-off-by: Matteo Croce <teknoraver@meta.com>
---
 Documentation/sphinx/maintainers_include.py | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/sphinx/maintainers_include.py b/Documentation/sphinx/maintainers_include.py
index 519ad18685b2..54f34f47c9ee 100755
--- a/Documentation/sphinx/maintainers_include.py
+++ b/Documentation/sphinx/maintainers_include.py
@@ -89,7 +89,8 @@ class MaintainersInclude(Include):
             output = None
             if descriptions:
                 # Escape the escapes in preformatted text.
-                output = "| %s" % (line.replace("\\", "\\\\"))
+                output = "| %s" % (line.replace("\\", "\\\\")
+                                        .replace("**", "\\**"))
                 # Look for and record field letter to field name mappings:
                 #   R: Designated *reviewer*: FullName <address@domain>
                 m = re.search(r"\s(\S):\s", line)
-- 
2.50.1

Re: [PATCH] docs: escape ** glob pattern in MAINTAINERS descriptions

[Randy Dunlap]

Hi,

On 4/9/26 3:31 PM, Matteo Croce wrote:
> From: Matteo Croce <teknoraver@meta.com>
> 
> Escape '**' in the MAINTAINERS descriptions section to prevent
> reStructuredText from interpreting it as bold/strong inline markup,
> which causes a warning when running 'make htmldocs'.
> 
> Fixes: 420849332f9f ("get_maintainer: add ** glob pattern support")
> Signed-off-by: Matteo Croce <teknoraver@meta.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/sphinx/maintainers_include.py | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/sphinx/maintainers_include.py b/Documentation/sphinx/maintainers_include.py
> index 519ad18685b2..54f34f47c9ee 100755
> --- a/Documentation/sphinx/maintainers_include.py
> +++ b/Documentation/sphinx/maintainers_include.py
> @@ -89,7 +89,8 @@ class MaintainersInclude(Include):
>              output = None
>              if descriptions:
>                  # Escape the escapes in preformatted text.
> -                output = "| %s" % (line.replace("\\", "\\\\"))
> +                output = "| %s" % (line.replace("\\", "\\\\")
> +                                        .replace("**", "\\**"))
>                  # Look for and record field letter to field name mappings:
>                  #   R: Designated *reviewer*: FullName <address@domain>
>                  m = re.search(r"\s(\S):\s", line)

It's nice to eliminate one warning from 'make htmldocs', so this is good
in that regard. However, there are still multiple problems (not Warnings)
with '*' characters in the MAINTAINERS file:

1) 	   F:	*/net/*		all files in "any top level directory"/net

In the html output, it shows "/net/" italicized (that's what one * does).

2)	   F:	fs/**/*foo*.c	all *foo*.c files in any subdirectory of fs

In the html output, it shows

	F: fs/**/foo.c all foo.c files in any subdirectory of fs

with both occurrences of "foo.c" italicized (dropping the '*' characters).

These 2 examples are actively wrong.

I didn't look at any other possible issues.

-- 
~Randy