[PATCH v2 2/2] Documentation: sphinx: Don't parse socket() as identifier reference

From: Jonathan NeuschÃfer
Date: Mon Aug 12 2019 - 12:08:01 EST


With the introduction of Documentation/sphinx/automarkup.py, socket() is
parsed as a reference to the in-kernel definition of socket. Sphinx then
decides that struct socket is a good match, which is usually not
intended, when the syscall is meant instead. This was observed in
Documentation/networking/af_xdp.rst.

Prevent socket() from being misinterpreted by adding it to the Skipfuncs
list in automarkup.py.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan NeuschÃfer <j.neuschaefer@xxxxxxx>
---

v2:
- block socket() in Documentation/sphinx/automarkup.py, as suggested by
Jonathan Corbet

v1:
- https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190810121738.19587-1-j.neuschaefer@xxxxxxx/
---
Documentation/sphinx/automarkup.py | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/sphinx/automarkup.py b/Documentation/sphinx/automarkup.py
index a8798369e8f7..5b6119ff69f4 100644
--- a/Documentation/sphinx/automarkup.py
+++ b/Documentation/sphinx/automarkup.py
@@ -26,7 +26,8 @@ RE_function = re.compile(r'([\w_][\w\d_]+\(\))')
# just don't even try with these names.
#
Skipfuncs = [ 'open', 'close', 'read', 'write', 'fcntl', 'mmap',
- 'select', 'poll', 'fork', 'execve', 'clone', 'ioctl']
+ 'select', 'poll', 'fork', 'execve', 'clone', 'ioctl',
+ 'socket' ]

#
# Find all occurrences of function() and try to replace them with
--
2.20.1