Sphinx doesn't like to have lines split with str.split("\n"). Instead, it uses its own splitter, with handles line breaks the way Spinx expects. Not using it cause issues at the output files. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@xxxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/sphinx/kernel_abi.py | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/sphinx/kernel_abi.py b/Documentation/sphinx/kernel_abi.py index 025a4f02e1a4..2408ba7a3981 100644 --- a/Documentation/sphinx/kernel_abi.py +++ b/Documentation/sphinx/kernel_abi.py @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ import os import re import sys -from docutils import nodes +from docutils import nodes, statemachine from docutils.statemachine import ViewList from docutils.parsers.rst import directives, Directive from sphinx.util.docutils import switch_source_input @@ -105,7 +105,8 @@ class KernelCmd(Directive): old_f = fname n = 0 for msg, f, ln in self.parser.doc(): - msg_list = msg.split("\n") + msg_list = statemachine.string2lines(msg, tab_width, + convert_whitespace=True) if "debug" in self.options: lines = [ "", "", ".. code-block:: rst", -- 2.48.1