Re: [PATCH v2 00/15] Some improvements and fixes for the doc build system

[Mauro Carvalho Chehab]

Em Sat, 21 Jun 2025 14:09:39 -0600
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx> escreveu:

> Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > Hi Jon,
> >
> > This series contain patches I made while working at the parser-yaml.
> > They aren't directly related to it. Instead, they address some issues
> > at the build system and provide test tools for building docs.  
> 
> So as you saw I'd applied the previous set - but I've undone that.
> Something in the first patch (the conf.py changes) breaks the dependency
> detection so that every build turns into a full build.  Just run
> "make htmldocs" twice in a row to see what happens.  That somehow needs
> to be fixed...

Tricky. When I originally wrote it, on the top of 8.x, there is no need
to add a connect event. For older versions, this is a need.

I ended adding a 'builder-inited', but this is too late. Changing the
event to 'config-inited' address it.

I'll fold the patch below at patch 01/15.

Regards,
Mauro

diff --git a/Documentation/conf.py b/Documentation/conf.py
index 4ba4ee45e599..91ce2b1c33cc 100644
--- a/Documentation/conf.py
+++ b/Documentation/conf.py
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ dyn_exclude_patterns = ['output']
 # Properly handle include/exclude patterns
 # ----------------------------------------
 
-def update_patterns(app):
+def update_patterns(app, config):
 
     """
     On Sphinx, all directories are relative to what it is passed as
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ def update_patterns(app):
             if rel_path.startswith("../"):
                 continue
 
-            app.config.include_patterns.append(rel_path)
+            config.include_patterns.append(rel_path)
 
     # setup exclude_patterns dynamically
     for p in dyn_exclude_patterns:
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ def update_patterns(app):
         if rel_path.startswith("../"):
             continue
 
-        app.config.exclude_patterns.append(rel_path)
+        config.exclude_patterns.append(rel_path)
 
 # helper
 # ------
@@ -574,4 +574,4 @@ kerneldoc_srctree = '..'
 loadConfig(globals())
 
 def setup(app):
-	app.connect('builder-inited', update_patterns)
+    app.connect('config-inited', update_patterns)


Thanks,
Mauro