Em Wed, 10 Aug 2016 12:15:34 +0300 Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@xxxxxxxxx> escreveu: > On Mon, 08 Aug 2016, Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi Jani, > > > > Am 08.08.2016 um 17:37 schrieb Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@xxxxxxxxx>: > > > >> > >> Hi Mauro & co - > >> > >> I just noticed running 'make htmldocs' rebuilds parts of media docs > >> every time on repeated runs. This shouldn't happen. Please investigate. > >> > >> I wonder if it's related to Documentation/media/Makefile... which I have > >> to say I am not impressed by. I was really hoping we could build all the > >> documentation by standalone sphinx-build invocation too, relying only on > >> the conf.py so that e.g. Read the Docs can build the docs. Part of that > >> motivation was to keep the build clean in makefiles, and handing the > >> dependency tracking completely to Sphinx. > >> > >> I believe what's in Documentation/media/Makefile, > >> Documentation/sphinx/parse-headers.pl, and > >> Documentation/sphinx/kernel_include.py could be replaced by a Sphinx > >> extension looking at the sources directly. > > > > Yes, parse-headers.pl, kernel_include.py and media/Makefile are needed > > for one feature ... not very straight forward. > > > > If it makes sense to migrate the perl scripts functionality to a > > Sphinx extension, may I can help ... depends on what Mauro thinks. > > > > BTW: parse-headers.pl is not the only perl script I like to migrate to py ;) > > If I understand the need of all of this right, I think the cleanest and > fastest short term measure would be to make the kernel-include directive > extension do the same thing as the kernel-doc directive does: call the > perl script from the directive. > > This lets you get rid of Documentation/media/Makefile and you don't have > to copy-paste all of Include.run method into kernel_include.py. You can > also get rid of specifying environment variables in rst files and > parsing them in the extension. We can get rid of the problematic > intermediate rst files. This design has been proven with the kernel-doc > extension and script already. It's much simpler. Works for me. If someone comes with such patch, I'll happily ack it. Cheers, Mauro -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
