This series comes after https://lore.kernel.org/linux-doc/87a5b96296.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/T/#t It increases the minimal requirements for Sphinx and Python. Sphinx release dates: Release 2.4.0 (released Feb 09, 2020) Release 2.4.4 (released Mar 05, 2020) (current minimal requirement) Release 3.4.0 (released Dec 20, 2020) Release 3.4.3 (released Jan 08, 2021) (https://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master/changes/index.html) In terms of Python, we're currently at 3.5: Python Release date 3.5 2015-09-13 (current minimal requirement) 3.6 2016-12-23 3.7 2018-06-27 3.8 2019-10-14 3.9 2020-10-05 3.10 2021-10-04 (according with https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=History_of_Python) The new minimal requirements are now: - Sphinx 3.4.3; - Python 3.9 The new Sphinx minimal requirement allows dropping all backward-compatible code we have at kernel-doc and at Sphinx extensions. The new Python minimal requirement matches the current required level for all scripts but one (*). The one that doesn't match is at tools/net/sunrpc/xdrgen. Those matches a 4-years old toolchain, which sounds a reasonable period of time, as Python/Sphinx aren't required for the Kernel build. Mauro Carvalho Chehab (6): scripts/get_abi.py: make it backward-compatible with Python 3.6 docs: extensions: don't use utf-8 syntax for descriptions docs: automarkup: drop legacy support scripts/kernel-doc: drop Sphinx version check docs: changes: update Sphinx minimal version to 3.4.3 doc: changes: update Python minimal version Documentation/conf.py | 2 +- Documentation/process/changes.rst | 4 +- Documentation/sphinx/automarkup.py | 32 ++--- Documentation/sphinx/cdomain.py | 7 +- Documentation/sphinx/kernel_abi.py | 6 +- Documentation/sphinx/kernel_feat.py | 4 +- Documentation/sphinx/kernel_include.py | 4 +- Documentation/sphinx/kerneldoc.py | 5 - Documentation/sphinx/kfigure.py | 10 +- Documentation/sphinx/load_config.py | 2 +- Documentation/sphinx/maintainers_include.py | 4 +- Documentation/sphinx/rstFlatTable.py | 10 +- scripts/get_abi.py | 16 ++- scripts/kernel-doc | 129 +++----------------- 14 files changed, 58 insertions(+), 177 deletions(-) -- 2.48.1
