kernel_include extension was originally designed to be used by the
media comprehensive uAPI documentation, where, instead of simpler
kernel-doc markups, the uAPI documentation is enriched with a larger
text, with images, complex tables, graphs, etc.
There, we wanted to include the much simpler yet documented .h
file.
This extension is needed to include files from other parts of the
Kernel tree outside Documentation, because the original Sphinx
include tag doesn't allow going outside of the directory passed
via sphinx-build command line.
Yet, the cross-references themselves to the full documentation
were using a perl script to create cross-references against the
comprehensive documentation.
As the perl script is now converted to Phython and there is a
Python class producing an include-compatible output with cross
references, add two optional arguments to kernel_include.py:
1. :generate-cross-refs:
If present, instead of reading the file, it calls ParseDataStructs()
class, which converts C data structures into cross-references to
be linked to ReST files containing a more comprehensive documentation;
Don't use it together with :start-line: and/or :end-line:, as
filtering input file line range is currently not supported.
2. :exception-file:
Used together with :generate-cross-refs:. Points to a file containing
rules to ignore C data structs or to use a different reference name,
optionally using a different reference type.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/efc39c8e54a2056ae2fdb94d5006fcb19e227198.1755872208.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org
The setup() function of a Sphinx-extension can return a dictionary. This
is treated by Sphinx as metadata of the extension [1].
With metadata "parallel_read_safe = True" a extension is marked as
save for "parallel reading of source". This is needed if you want
build in parallel with N processes. E.g.:
make SPHINXOPTS=-j4 htmldocs
will no longer log warnings like:
WARNING: the foobar extension does not declare if it is safe for
parallel reading, assuming it isn't - please ask the extension author
to check and make it explicit.
Add metadata to extensions:
* kernel-doc
* flat-table
* kernel-include
[1] http://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/stable/extdev/#extension-metadata
Signed-off-by: Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@darmarIT.de>
Tested-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
The kernel-include directive is needed to include the auto generated rst
content from a build (pre-) process. E.g. the linux_tv Makefile
generates intermediate reST-files from header files. Since there is a O=
option:
make O=dir [targets] Locate all output files in "dir"
We need to include intermediate reST files from arbitrary (O=/tmp/foo)
locations:
The 'kernel-include' reST-directive is a replacement for the 'include'
directive. The 'kernel-include' directive expand environment variables
in the path name and allows to include files from arbitrary locations.
.. hint::
Including files from arbitrary locations (e.g. from '/etc') is a
security risk for builders. This is why the 'include' directive from
docutils *prohibit* pathnames pointing to locations *above* the
filesystem tree where the reST document with the include directive is
placed.
Substrings of the form $name or ${name} are replaced by the value of
environment variable name. Malformed variable names and references to
non-existing variables are left unchanged.
Signed-off-by: Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@darmarIT.de>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
Akira Yokosawa
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
Markus Heiser