linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v7 03/17] docs: netlink: netlink-raw.rst: use :ref: instead of :doc:

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Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2025 09:57:40 +0100
From: Donald Hunter <donald.hunter@...il.com>
To: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@...nel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 03/17] docs: netlink: netlink-raw.rst: use :ref:
 instead of :doc:

Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@...nel.org> writes:

> Currently, rt documents are referred with:
>
> Documentation/userspace-api/netlink/netlink-raw.rst: :doc:`rt-link<../../networking/netlink_spec/rt-link>`
> Documentation/userspace-api/netlink/netlink-raw.rst: :doc:`tc<../../networking/netlink_spec/tc>`
> Documentation/userspace-api/netlink/netlink-raw.rst: :doc:`tc<../../networking/netlink_spec/tc>`
>
> Having :doc: references with relative paths doesn't always work,
> as it may have troubles when O= is used. Also that's hard to
> maintain, and may break if we change the way rst files are
> generated from yaml. Better to use instead a reference for
> the netlink family.
>
> So, replace them by Sphinx cross-reference tag that are
> created by ynl_gen_rst.py.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@...nel.org>

Reviewed-by: Donald Hunter <donald.hunter@...il.com>