Commit d18b0178 authored by Nícolas F. R. A. Prado's avatar Nícolas F. R. A. Prado Committed by Jonathan Corbet
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docs: Add automatic cross-reference for documentation pages



Cross-referencing to other documentation pages is possible using the
:doc:`doc-file` directive from Sphinx.

Add automatic markup for references to other documentation pages in the
format Documentation/subfolder/doc-file.rst (the extension being
optional).
This requires that the path be passed all the way from the Documentation
folder, which can be longer than passing a relative path through the
:doc: directive, but avoids the markup, making the text cleaner when
read in plain text.

Signed-off-by: default avatarNícolas F. R. A. Prado <nfraprado@protonmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200911133339.327721-3-nfraprado@protonmail.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
parent 1ac4cfb2
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@@ -24,6 +24,11 @@ from itertools import chain
#
RE_function = re.compile(r'(([\w_][\w\d_]+)\(\))')
RE_type = re.compile(r'(struct|union|enum|typedef)\s+([\w_][\w\d_]+)')
#
# Detects a reference to a documentation page of the form Documentation/... with
# an optional extension
#
RE_doc = re.compile(r'Documentation(/[\w\-_/]+)(\.\w+)*')

#
# Many places in the docs refer to common system calls.  It is
@@ -44,7 +49,8 @@ def markup_refs(docname, app, node):
    # Associate each regex with the function that will markup its matches
    #
    markup_func = {RE_type: markup_c_ref,
                   RE_function: markup_c_ref}
                   RE_function: markup_c_ref,
                   RE_doc: markup_doc_ref}
    match_iterators = [regex.finditer(t) for regex in markup_func]
    #
    # Sort all references by the starting position in text
@@ -108,6 +114,37 @@ def markup_c_ref(docname, app, match):
    else:
        return target_text

#
# Try to replace a documentation reference of the form Documentation/... with a
# cross reference to that page
#
def markup_doc_ref(docname, app, match):
    stddom = app.env.domains['std']
    #
    # Go through the dance of getting an xref out of the std domain
    #
    target = match.group(1)
    xref = None
    pxref = addnodes.pending_xref('', refdomain = 'std', reftype = 'doc',
                                  reftarget = target, modname = None,
                                  classname = None, refexplicit = False)
    #
    # XXX The Latex builder will throw NoUri exceptions here,
    # work around that by ignoring them.
    #
    try:
        xref = stddom.resolve_xref(app.env, docname, app.builder, 'doc',
                                   target, pxref, None)
    except NoUri:
        xref = None
    #
    # Return the xref if we got it; otherwise just return the plain text.
    #
    if xref:
        return xref
    else:
        return nodes.Text(match.group(0))

def auto_markup(app, doctree, name):
    #
    # This loop could eventually be improved on.  Someday maybe we