FAILED: patch "[PATCH] Documentation/sphinx: Fix Directive import error" failed to apply to 4.14-stable tree

FAILED: patch "[PATCH] Documentation/sphinx: Fix Directive import error" failed to apply to 4.14-stable tree

[gregkh]

The patch below does not apply to the 4.14-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.

thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

>From 41387bb7d869e96df4b870e1880ad49f053cc755 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com>
Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2018 10:40:14 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Documentation/sphinx: Fix Directive import error

Sphinx 1.7 removed sphinx.util.compat.Directive so people
who have upgraded cannot build the documentation.  Switch to
docutils.parsers.rst.Directive which has been available since
docutils 0.5 released in 2009.

Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1083694
Co-developed-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Acked-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

diff --git a/Documentation/sphinx/kerneldoc.py b/Documentation/sphinx/kerneldoc.py
index 39aa9e8697cc..fbedcc39460b 100644
--- a/Documentation/sphinx/kerneldoc.py
+++ b/Documentation/sphinx/kerneldoc.py
@@ -36,8 +36,7 @@ import glob
 
 from docutils import nodes, statemachine
 from docutils.statemachine import ViewList
-from docutils.parsers.rst import directives
-from sphinx.util.compat import Directive
+from docutils.parsers.rst import directives, Directive
 from sphinx.ext.autodoc import AutodocReporter
 
 __version__  = '1.0'