Re: Kernel docs: muddying the waters a bit

From: Daniel Vetter
Date: Wed Feb 17 2016 - 17:29:49 EST


On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 11:14 PM, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, 14 Feb 2016 13:27:04 +0100
> Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> One concern/open I have for pro/cons are the hyperlinks from kerneldoc
>> comments. Currently we have the postproc hack, iirc Jani's patches
>> generated links native when extracting the kerneldoc. What's the
>> solution with spinx?
>
> So I've been trying to figure out what this refers to. Is this the
> cross-reference links within the document? When I did my sphinx hack it
> used a technique that, shall we say, strongly resembles what Jani's
> patches did. One difference is that Sphinx has the concept of
> "functions" built into it, so I use function references for those.

That's what I meant. As long as I can type in stuff like func(),
&struct and similar and get a link for it automatically (plus anywhere
else in the templated stuff for function headers) I'm really happy.
-Daniel
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