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2016-05-30Documentation/sphinx: configure the kernel-doc extensionJani Nikula1-2/+8
Tell Sphinx where to find the extension, and pass on the kernel src tree and kernel-doc paths to the extension. With this, any .rst files under Documentation may contain the kernel-doc rst directive to include kernel-doc documentation from any source file. While building, it may be handy to pass kernel-doc extension configuration on the command line. For example, 'make SPHINXOPTS="-D kerneldoc_verbosity=0" htmldocs' silences all stderr output from kernel-doc when the kernel-doc exit code is 0. (The stderr will be logged unconditionally when the exit code is non-zero.) Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
2016-05-30Documentation/sphinx: add basic working Sphinx configuration and buildJani Nikula1-0/+387
Add basic configuration and makefile to build documentation from any .rst files under Documentation using Sphinx. For starters, there's just the placeholder index.rst. At the top level Makefile, hook Sphinx documentation targets alongside (but independent of) the DocBook toolchain, having both be run on the various 'make *docs' targets. All Sphinx processing is placed into Documentation/Makefile.sphinx. Both that and the Documentation/DocBook/Makefile are now expected to handle all the documentation targets, explicitly ignoring them if they're not relevant for that particular toolchain. The changes to the existing DocBook Makefile are kept minimal. There is graceful handling of missing Sphinx and rst2pdf (which is needed for pdf output) by checking for the tool and python module, respectively, with informative messages to the user. If the Read the Docs theme (sphinx_rtd_theme) is available, use it, but otherwise gracefully fall back to the Sphinx default theme, with an informative message to the user, and slightly less pretty HTML output. Sphinx can now handle htmldocs, pdfdocs (if rst2pdf is available), epubdocs and xmldocs targets. The output documents are written into per output type subdirectories under Documentation/output. Finally, you can pass options to sphinx-build using the SPHINXBUILD make variable. For example, 'make SPHINXOPTS=-v htmldocs' for more verbose output from Sphinx. This is based on the original work by Jonathan Corbet, but he probably wouldn't recognize this as his own anymore. Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>