linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v8 00/24] Split sphinx call logic from docs Makefile

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Message-ID: <878qib7dy6.fsf@trenco.lwn.net>
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2025 13:33:53 -0600
From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
To: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@...nel.org>
Cc: Linux Doc Mailing List <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 00/24] Split sphinx call logic from docs Makefile

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

>> I haven't
>> had the time to figure it out.
>
> I don't remember anymore what "subproject" really means inside
> ".. only::", block, but I guess it is meant to be used when one
> passes SPHINXDIRS.

I found myself in a similar position...  it is set in
Documentation/sphinx/load_config.py, it seems a certain Mauro added that
in 2019 :)  Since then, it has seemingly been cargo-culted all over the
place; I wonder if we really need it.

jo