linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] Documentation/sphinx: Fix Directive import error

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Date:   Fri, 02 Mar 2018 18:01:50 +0200
From:   Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@...el.com>
To:     Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
Cc:     Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>, Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Documentation/sphinx: Fix Directive import error

On Fri, 02 Mar 2018, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de> wrote:
> The sphinx.util.compat for Directive stuff was deprecated in the
> recent Sphinx version, and now we get a build error.
>
> Let's import from the new place, docutils.parsers.rst, while keeping
> the old sphinx.util.compat as fallback.
>
> Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1083694
> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
> ---
> v1->v2: Change the fallback order as Matthew suggested, the new one at first

So this crossed my mind as well... and then I thought it'll probably
succeed on older Sphinx, and the fallback is not needed. The question
is, are these equal? Can we just import from docutils.parsers.rst?

I'm sorry I don't have the time to find the answers to these questions
as well. :(

BR,
Jani.


>
>  Documentation/sphinx/kerneldoc.py | 5 ++++-
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/sphinx/kerneldoc.py b/Documentation/sphinx/kerneldoc.py
> index 39aa9e8697cc..34396976eb0a 100644
> --- a/Documentation/sphinx/kerneldoc.py
> +++ b/Documentation/sphinx/kerneldoc.py
> @@ -37,7 +37,10 @@ import glob
>  from docutils import nodes, statemachine
>  from docutils.statemachine import ViewList
>  from docutils.parsers.rst import directives
> -from sphinx.util.compat import Directive
> +try:
> +    from docutils.parsers.rst import directives, Directive
> +except ImportError:
> +    from sphinx.util.compat import Directive
>  from sphinx.ext.autodoc import AutodocReporter
>  
>  __version__  = '1.0'

-- 
Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Technology Center