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2016-09-01docs: sphinx-extensions: add metadata parallel-safeMarkus Heiser
The setup() function of a Sphinx-extension can return a dictionary. This is treated by Sphinx as metadata of the extension [1]. With metadata "parallel_read_safe = True" a extension is marked as save for "parallel reading of source". This is needed if you want build in parallel with N processes. E.g.: make SPHINXOPTS=-j4 htmldocs will no longer log warnings like: WARNING: the foobar extension does not declare if it is safe for parallel reading, assuming it isn't - please ask the extension author to check and make it explicit. Add metadata to extensions: * kernel-doc * flat-table * kernel-include [1] http://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/stable/extdev/#extension-metadata Signed-off-by: Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@darmarIT.de> Tested-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-07-08doc-rst: add kernel-include directiveMarkus Heiser
The kernel-include directive is needed to include the auto generated rst content from a build (pre-) process. E.g. the linux_tv Makefile generates intermediate reST-files from header files. Since there is a O= option: make O=dir [targets] Locate all output files in "dir" We need to include intermediate reST files from arbitrary (O=/tmp/foo) locations: The 'kernel-include' reST-directive is a replacement for the 'include' directive. The 'kernel-include' directive expand environment variables in the path name and allows to include files from arbitrary locations. .. hint:: Including files from arbitrary locations (e.g. from '/etc') is a security risk for builders. This is why the 'include' directive from docutils *prohibit* pathnames pointing to locations *above* the filesystem tree where the reST document with the include directive is placed. Substrings of the form $name or ${name} are replaced by the value of environment variable name. Malformed variable names and references to non-existing variables are left unchanged. Signed-off-by: Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@darmarIT.de> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>