Re: [PATCH v4 04/14] tools: ynl_gen_rst.py: make the index parser more generic

[Mauro Carvalho Chehab]

Em Sat, 14 Jun 2025 14:41:29 +0100
Donald Hunter <donald.hunter@xxxxxxxxx> escreveu:

> On Sat, 14 Jun 2025 at 09:56, Mauro Carvalho Chehab
> <mchehab+huawei@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > It is not a good practice to store build-generated files
> > inside $(srctree), as one may be using O=<BUILDDIR> and even
> > have the Kernel on a read-only directory.
> >
> > Change the YAML generation for netlink files to allow it
> > to parse data based on the source or on the object tree.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  tools/net/ynl/pyynl/ynl_gen_rst.py | 22 ++++++++++++++++------
> >  1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)  
> 
> It looks like this patch is no longer required since this script
> doesn't get run by `make htmldocs` any more.
> 
> Instead, I think there is cleanup work to remove unused code like
> `generate_main_index_rst`

It is too early to drop it on this series, as only this patch:

	[PATCH v4 09/14] docs: use parser_yaml extension to handle Netlink specs

stops using it.

> This whole script may be unnecessary now, unless we want a simple way
> to run YnlDocGenerator separately from the main doc build.

It is up to you to keep or drop after patch 9. Yet, on my experiences with
kernel_doc.py and get_abi.py, it is a lot easier to test the parser via 
a simple command line script, without having Sphinx parallel build, complex
doc build logic and Sphinx exception handling in place.

My suggestion is to keep ynl_gen_rst.py, removing generate_main_index_rst
as a cleanup patch after patch 9.

Regards,
Mauro