From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx> commit 0283189e8f3d0917e2ac399688df85211f48447b upstream. Sphinx 6.0 removed the execfile_() function, which we use as part of the configuration process. They *did* warn us... Just open-code the functionality as is done in Sphinx itself. Tested (using SPHINX_CONF, since this code is only executed with an alternative config file) on various Sphinx versions from 2.5 through 6.0. Reported-by: Martin Liška <mliska@xxxxxxx> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/sphinx/load_config.py | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/Documentation/sphinx/load_config.py +++ b/Documentation/sphinx/load_config.py @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ import os import sys -from sphinx.util.pycompat import execfile_ +from sphinx.util.osutil import fs_encoding # ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ def loadConfig(namespace): @@ -48,7 +48,9 @@ def loadConfig(namespace): sys.stdout.write("load additional sphinx-config: %s\n" % config_file) config = namespace.copy() config['__file__'] = config_file - execfile_(config_file, config) + with open(config_file, 'rb') as f: + code = compile(f.read(), fs_encoding, 'exec') + exec(code, config) del config['__file__'] namespace.update(config) else: