On Thu, 1 Oct 2020 15:41:00 -0600 Jonathan Corbet <cor...@lwn.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Sep 2020 15:24:27 +0200 > Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+hua...@kernel.org> wrote: > > > With Sphinx 3.x, the ".. c:type:" tag was changed to accept either: > > > > .. c:type:: typedef-like declaration > > .. c:type:: name > > > > Using it for other types (including functions) don't work anymore. > > > > So, there are newer tags for macro, enum, struct, union, and others, > > which doesn't exist on older versions. > > > > Add a check for the Sphinx version and change the produced tags > > accordingly. > > > > Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+hua...@kernel.org> > > --- > > scripts/kernel-doc | 71 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---- > > 1 file changed, 65 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) > > So this seems generally good, but I do wonder if we shouldn't just pass > the sphinx version into kernel-doc as a parameter? We're already doing a > version check in the makefile, we should be able to capture the result and > pass it in, maybe? Actually, I'm being slow...we invoke kernel-doc *from within Sphinx*, so it shouldn't be all that hard to stick the version number onto the command line. If we did it that way, it would also be easier to manually test kernel-doc for various Sphinx versions... ? jon
