Re: [PATCH v4 04/14] tools: ynl_gen_rst.py: make the index parser more generic

[Donald Hunter <donald.hunter@gmail.com>]

On Sat, 14 Jun 2025 at 09:56, Mauro Carvalho Chehab
<mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> It is not a good practice to store build-generated files
> inside $(srctree), as one may be using O=<BUILDDIR> and even
> have the Kernel on a read-only directory.
>
> Change the YAML generation for netlink files to allow it
> to parse data based on the source or on the object tree.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
> ---
>  tools/net/ynl/pyynl/ynl_gen_rst.py | 22 ++++++++++++++++------
>  1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

It looks like this patch is no longer required since this script
doesn't get run by `make htmldocs` any more.

Instead, I think there is cleanup work to remove unused code like
`generate_main_index_rst`

This whole script may be unnecessary now, unless we want a simple way
to run YnlDocGenerator separately from the main doc build.

>
> diff --git a/tools/net/ynl/pyynl/ynl_gen_rst.py b/tools/net/ynl/pyynl/ynl_gen_rst.py
> index 7bfb8ceeeefc..b1e5acafb998 100755
> --- a/tools/net/ynl/pyynl/ynl_gen_rst.py
> +++ b/tools/net/ynl/pyynl/ynl_gen_rst.py
> @@ -365,6 +365,7 @@ def parse_arguments() -> argparse.Namespace:
>
>      parser.add_argument("-v", "--verbose", action="store_true")
>      parser.add_argument("-o", "--output", help="Output file name")
> +    parser.add_argument("-d", "--input_dir", help="YAML input directory")
>
>      # Index and input are mutually exclusive
>      group = parser.add_mutually_exclusive_group()
> @@ -405,11 +406,14 @@ def write_to_rstfile(content: str, filename: str) -> None:
>      """Write the generated content into an RST file"""
>      logging.debug("Saving RST file to %s", filename)
>
> +    dir = os.path.dirname(filename)
> +    os.makedirs(dir, exist_ok=True)
> +
>      with open(filename, "w", encoding="utf-8") as rst_file:
>          rst_file.write(content)
>
>
> -def generate_main_index_rst(output: str) -> None:
> +def generate_main_index_rst(output: str, index_dir: str) -> None:
>      """Generate the `networking_spec/index` content and write to the file"""
>      lines = []
>
> @@ -418,12 +422,18 @@ def generate_main_index_rst(output: str) -> None:
>      lines.append(rst_title("Netlink Family Specifications"))
>      lines.append(rst_toctree(1))
>
> -    index_dir = os.path.dirname(output)
> -    logging.debug("Looking for .rst files in %s", index_dir)
> +    index_fname = os.path.basename(output)
> +    base, ext = os.path.splitext(index_fname)
> +
> +    if not index_dir:
> +        index_dir = os.path.dirname(output)
> +
> +    logging.debug(f"Looking for {ext} files in %s", index_dir)
>      for filename in sorted(os.listdir(index_dir)):
> -        if not filename.endswith(".rst") or filename == "index.rst":
> +        if not filename.endswith(ext) or filename == index_fname:
>              continue
> -        lines.append(f"   {filename.replace('.rst', '')}\n")
> +        base, ext = os.path.splitext(filename)
> +        lines.append(f"   {base}\n")
>
>      logging.debug("Writing an index file at %s", output)
>      write_to_rstfile("".join(lines), output)
> @@ -447,7 +457,7 @@ def main() -> None:
>
>      if args.index:
>          # Generate the index RST file
> -        generate_main_index_rst(args.output)
> +        generate_main_index_rst(args.output, args.input_dir)
>
>
>  if __name__ == "__main__":
> --
> 2.49.0
>