[PATCH] apple-gmux: Sphinxify docs

Daniel Vetter daniel at ffwll.ch
Mon Jul 25 06:56:33 UTC 2016


On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 01:19:12PM -0700, Darren Hart wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 03:11:45PM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 08, 2016 at 07:49:32AM +0200, Lukas Wunner wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jul 06, 2016 at 01:40:25PM -0700, Darren Hart wrote:
> > > > On Mon, Jul 04, 2016 at 12:40:35PM +0200, Lukas Wunner wrote:
> > > > > Convert asciidoc-formatted docs to rst in accordance with Jonathan's and
> > > > > Jani's effort to use sphinx for kernel-doc rendering in 4.8.
> > > > 
> > > > Somebody help me out here. How do I verify this works and using sphinx?
> > > > to build the docs?
> > > 
> > > (1) git remote add l1k https://github.com/l1k/linux.git
> > >     git fetch l1k
> > >     git checkout l1k/sphinx-docs
> > >     (Alternatively: git cherry-pick v4.7-rc6..l1k/sphinx-docs )
> > > 
> > > (2) sudo apt-get install python-sphinx python-sphinx-rtd-theme
> > > 
> > > (3) make xmldocs
> > >     make htmldocs
> > > 
> > > (4) open Documentation/output/html/index.html
> > >     click on "VGA Switcheroo", then click on "Handlers" in the
> > >     navigation pane on the left
> > > 
> > > The apple-gmux docs are currently asciidoc-formatted. Support for
> > > markdown/asciidoc in kerneldoc was an Intel-sponsored effort last year
> > > led by Daniel, but never got upstreamed.
> > > 
> > > After some deliberation the decision was made to use rst instead.
> > > Support for it is in docs-next, i.e. will be in 4.8.
> > > 
> > > Jani has converted the gpu docs to rst and deleted the gpu.tmpl,
> > > this is on the drm-intel/for-linux-next branch but not yet in drm-next.
> > > Jani and Daniel are both on vacation. Daniel has indicated that he
> > > considers sending another drm-intel-next pull when he returns next week,
> > > then the rst-formatted gpu docs would land in drm-next:
> > > https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/intel-gfx/2016-June/099114.html
> > > 
> > > 
> > > > Should I be merging this directly, or is it dependent on something Jon
> > > > is working on and therefore to be merged by him?
> > > 
> > > It is not dependent on someone else. You can either merge it directly
> > > through your tree or alternatively ack it and have it merged through
> > > drm-intel trees by Daniel (+ cc:) next week.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Unfortunately there is currently no branch which contains all the rst
> > > patches in docs-next *and* the rst-formatted gpu docs in drm-intel.
> > > (Some patches in docs-next are missing from drm-intel/for-linux-next.)
> > > That's why I pushed the above-mentioned branch to my GitHub repo,
> > > it contains everything needed:
> > > https://github.com/l1k/linux/commits/sphinx-docs
> > 
> > Probably best to pull this in through drm-misc, which contains docs-next
> > plus the skeleton conversion of the drm docs over to sphinx/rst. Darren,
> > ack on that?
> 
> Acked-by: Darren Hart <dvhart at linux.intel.com>
> 
> I've dropped this from my testing branch (I never pushed it to my next branch)
> and will leave it to you to pull in.

Thanks, applied to drm-misc. I'll try to still sneak it into 4.8.
-Daniel
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Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
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