[PATCH] workaround for Sphinx false positive preventing index

Kevin Paul Reddy Janagari kevinpaul468 at gmail.com
Fri Jun 27 07:16:28 UTC 2025


Functions drm_format_info, drm_modeset_lock, drm_ioctl_flags are not being
indexed in the documentation because there are structs with the same name 
and sphinx is only indexing one of them, Added them to namespaces as a
workaround for suppressing the warnings and indexing the functions



Signed-off-by: Kevin Paul Reddy Janagari <kevinpaul468 at gmail.com>
---
 Documentation/gpu/drm-kms.rst  | 2 ++
 Documentation/gpu/drm-uapi.rst | 1 +
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/gpu/drm-kms.rst b/Documentation/gpu/drm-kms.rst
index abfe220764e1..da865ba1c014 100644
--- a/Documentation/gpu/drm-kms.rst
+++ b/Documentation/gpu/drm-kms.rst
@@ -357,6 +357,7 @@ Format Functions Reference
 .. kernel-doc:: include/drm/drm_fourcc.h
    :internal:
 
+.. c:namespace:: gpu_drm_fourcc
 .. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fourcc.c
    :export:
 
@@ -473,6 +474,7 @@ KMS Locking
 .. kernel-doc:: include/drm/drm_modeset_lock.h
    :internal:
 
+.. c:namespace:: gpu_drm_modeset_lock
 .. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/drm_modeset_lock.c
    :export:
 
diff --git a/Documentation/gpu/drm-uapi.rst b/Documentation/gpu/drm-uapi.rst
index 69f72e71a96e..37a2bc461326 100644
--- a/Documentation/gpu/drm-uapi.rst
+++ b/Documentation/gpu/drm-uapi.rst
@@ -554,6 +554,7 @@ DRM specific patterns. Note that ENOTTY has the slightly unintuitive meaning of
 .. kernel-doc:: include/drm/drm_ioctl.h
    :internal:
 
+.. c:namespace:: gpu_drm
 .. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/drm_ioctl.c
    :export:
 
-- 
2.39.5



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