This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled Documentation/sphinx: Fix Directive import error to the 4.15-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: documentation-sphinx-fix-directive-import-error.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.15 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From ff690eeed804f112242f9a0614eafdf559f9276a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2018 10:40:14 -0800 Subject: Documentation/sphinx: Fix Directive import error From: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit ff690eeed804f112242f9a0614eafdf559f9276a upstream. Sphinx 1.7 removed sphinx.util.compat.Directive so people who have upgraded cannot build the documentation. Switch to docutils.parsers.rst.Directive which has been available since docutils 0.5 released in 2009. Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1083694 Co-developed-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> Acked-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/sphinx/kerneldoc.py | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/Documentation/sphinx/kerneldoc.py +++ b/Documentation/sphinx/kerneldoc.py @@ -36,8 +36,7 @@ import glob from docutils import nodes, statemachine from docutils.statemachine import ViewList -from docutils.parsers.rst import directives -from sphinx.util.compat import Directive +from docutils.parsers.rst import directives, Directive from sphinx.ext.autodoc import AutodocReporter __version__ = '1.0' Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from mawilcox@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.15/documentation-sphinx-fix-directive-import-error.patch