On Fri, 02 Mar 2018, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> wrote: > The sphinx.util.compat for Directive stuff was deprecated in the > recent Sphinx version, and now we get a build error. > > Let's import from the new place, docutils.parsers.rst, while keeping > the old sphinx.util.compat as fallback. > > Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1083694 > Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> > --- > v1->v2: Change the fallback order as Matthew suggested, the new one at first So this crossed my mind as well... and then I thought it'll probably succeed on older Sphinx, and the fallback is not needed. The question is, are these equal? Can we just import from docutils.parsers.rst? I'm sorry I don't have the time to find the answers to these questions as well. :( BR, Jani. > > Documentation/sphinx/kerneldoc.py | 5 ++++- > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/Documentation/sphinx/kerneldoc.py b/Documentation/sphinx/kerneldoc.py > index 39aa9e8697cc..34396976eb0a 100644 > --- a/Documentation/sphinx/kerneldoc.py > +++ b/Documentation/sphinx/kerneldoc.py > @@ -37,7 +37,10 @@ import glob > from docutils import nodes, statemachine > from docutils.statemachine import ViewList > from docutils.parsers.rst import directives > -from sphinx.util.compat import Directive > +try: > + from docutils.parsers.rst import directives, Directive > +except ImportError: > + from sphinx.util.compat import Directive > from sphinx.ext.autodoc import AutodocReporter > > __version__ = '1.0' -- Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Technology Center -- 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