[PATCH 3/4] docs: reconfigure the HTML left column

From: Jonathan Corbet
Date: Thu Sep 01 2022 - 19:17:11 EST


Use the html_sidebars directive to get a more useful set of links in the
left column.

Unfortunately, this is a no-op with the default RTD theme, but others
observe it.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/conf.py | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/conf.py b/Documentation/conf.py
index 78dd6d1e7b88..22c9d4df1967 100644
--- a/Documentation/conf.py
+++ b/Documentation/conf.py
@@ -370,7 +370,8 @@ html_static_path = ['sphinx-static']
html_use_smartypants = False

# Custom sidebar templates, maps document names to template names.
-#html_sidebars = {}
+# Note that the RTD theme ignores this
+html_sidebars = { '**': ['searchbox.html', 'localtoc.html', 'sourcelink.html']}

# Additional templates that should be rendered to pages, maps page names to
# template names.
--
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