Don't generate netlink .rst files inside $(srctree)
From: | Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei-AT-kernel.org> | |
To: | Linux Doc Mailing List <linux-doc-AT-vger.kernel.org>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet-AT-lwn.net> | |
Subject: | [PATCH v2 00/12] Don't generate netlink .rst files inside $(srctree) | |
Date: | Thu, 12 Jun 2025 12:31:52 +0200 | |
Message-ID: | <cover.1749723671.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> | |
Cc: | Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei-AT-kernel.org>, Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei-AT-kernel.org>, linux-kernel-AT-vger.kernel.org, Akira Yokosawa <akiyks-AT-gmail.com>, "David S. Miller" <davem-AT-davemloft.net>, Ignacio Encinas Rubio <ignacio-AT-iencinas.com>, Marco Elver <elver-AT-google.com>, Shuah Khan <skhan-AT-linuxfoundation.org>, Donald Hunter <donald.hunter-AT-gmail.com>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet-AT-google.com>, Jan Stancek <jstancek-AT-redhat.com>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni-AT-redhat.com>, Ruben Wauters <rubenru09-AT-aol.com>, joel-AT-joelfernandes.org, linux-kernel-mentees-AT-lists.linux.dev, lkmm-AT-lists.linux.dev, netdev-AT-vger.kernel.org, peterz-AT-infradead.org, stern-AT-rowland.harvard.edu, Breno Leitao <leitao-AT-debian.org>, Jakub Kicinski <mchehab+huawei-AT-kernel.org>, Simon Horman <mchehab+huawei-AT-kernel.org> | |
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As discussed at: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250610101331.62ba466f@foz.lan/ changeset f061c9f7d058 ("Documentation: Document each netlink family") added a logic which generates *.rst files inside $(srctree). This is bad when O=<BUILDDIR> is used. A recent change renamed the yaml files used by Netlink, revealing a bad side effect: as "make cleandocs" don't clean the produced files, symbols appear duplicated for people that don't build the kernel from scratch. There are some possible solutions for that. The simplest one, which is what this series address, places the build files inside Documentation/output. The changes to do that are simple enough, but has one drawback, as it requires a (simple) template file for every netlink family file from netlink/specs. The template is simple enough: .. kernel-include:: $BUILDDIR/networking/netlink_spec/<family>.rst Part of the issue is that sphinx-build only produces html files for sources inside the source tree (Documentation/). To address that, add an yaml parser extension to Sphinx. It should be noticed that this version has one drawback: it increases the documentation build time. I suspect that the culprit is inside Sphinx glob logic and the way it handles exclude_patterns. What happens is that sphinx/project.py uses glob, which, on my own experiences, it is slow (due to that, I ended implementing my own glob logic for kernel-doc). On the plus side, the extension is flexible enough to handle other types of yaml files, as the actual yaml conversion logic is outside the extension. With this version, there's no need to add any template file per netlink/spec file. Yet, the Documentation/netlink/spec.index.rst require updates as spec files are added/renamed/removed. The already-existing script can handle it automatically by running: tools/net/ynl/pyynl/ynl_gen_rst.py -x -v -o Documentation/netlink/specs/index.rst --- v2: - Use a Sphinx extension to handle netlink files. v1: - Statically add template files to as networking/netlink_spec/<family>.rst Mauro Carvalho Chehab (12): tools: ynl_gen_rst.py: create a top-level reference docs: netlink: netlink-raw.rst: use :ref: instead of :doc: docs: netlink: don't ignore generated rst files tools: ynl_gen_rst.py: make the index parser more generic tools: ynl_gen_rst.py: Split library from command line tool scripts: lib: netlink_yml_parser.py: use classes tools: ynl_gen_rst.py: do some coding style cleanups scripts: netlink_yml_parser.py: improve index.rst generation docs: sphinx: add a parser template for yaml files docs: sphinx: parser_yaml.py: add Netlink specs parser docs: use parser_yaml extension to handle Netlink specs docs: conf.py: don't handle yaml files outside Netlink specs .pylintrc | 2 +- Documentation/Makefile | 17 - Documentation/conf.py | 17 +- Documentation/netlink/specs/index.rst | 38 ++ Documentation/networking/index.rst | 2 +- .../networking/netlink_spec/.gitignore | 1 - .../networking/netlink_spec/readme.txt | 4 - Documentation/sphinx/parser_yaml.py | 80 ++++ .../userspace-api/netlink/netlink-raw.rst | 6 +- scripts/lib/netlink_yml_parser.py | 394 ++++++++++++++++++ tools/net/ynl/pyynl/ynl_gen_rst.py | 378 +---------------- 11 files changed, 544 insertions(+), 395 deletions(-) create mode 100644 Documentation/netlink/specs/index.rst delete mode 100644 Documentation/networking/netlink_spec/.gitignore delete mode 100644 Documentation/networking/netlink_spec/readme.txt create mode 100755 Documentation/sphinx/parser_yaml.py create mode 100755 scripts/lib/netlink_yml_parser.py -- 2.49.0